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TIL What Really Happened to Ahmed Best and Jake Lloyd

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R76p4 TIL a bee creates lift by clapping its wings together above its back. When the wings separate, air fills the void, and the downward swinging wings generate lift. The failure to account for this is the basis for the myth that bees shouldn’t be able to fly.
wL4wY TIL the term "Byzantine Empire" only came about a century after the Empire had fallen; the Byzantines called themselves Romans, and others called them Greeks
Jn1j TIL In North Korea it is the year 103, not 2014. This is because their calendar is based around the birth of Kim Il-Sung
l7X51 TIL that there is a more human way of extracting silk from Sikworms instead of boiling them alive, called Ahimsa Silk. But we choose cruelty anyways!
6EWgJ TIL Matels iconic Barbie Doll design was actually born in Germany in 1952. The inspiration for Americas most famous doll was a saucy highend prostitute named Lilli. Originally a comic-strip character, the Bild Lilli doll became so popular she was immortalized in plastic & sold as an adult novelty.