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TIL - In the six-week lifespan of one single bee, she will only produce a quarter of a teaspoon of honey.

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XELek TIL It is a popular myth that a komodo dragon's bite causes death because the mouth of a komodo dragon is so filthy that the bitten animal ultimately dies of a bacterial infection. In fact, a komodo dragon's mouth is just as clean as most animals and it instead relies on venom to hunt prey.
V850 TIL US Navy accidentally shot down a passenger plane from Tehran to Dubai in 1988.
nerKo TIL of Walter Morrison, a UPS worker who, in 2014, stole a $160,000 diamond and traded it for $20 worth of weed.
Dj5v TIL after slavery was abolished, many black sharecroppers and farmers immigrated to Russia to help them build their agricultural systems.
gMYG9 TIL 'Contact Lost' (2003) by Deep Purple was composed within ONE HOUR as a tribute to the Columbia Disaster.