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#TIL that #bees have been around since the time when dinosaurs roamed the Earth and ancient bees seem to have also gone through a mass extinction!
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti…
sciencedaily.com/releases/2013…
First Evidence for a Massive Extinction Event Affecting Bees Close to the K-T Boundary
Bees and eudicot plants both arose in the mid-late Cretaceous, and their co-evolutionary relationships have often been assumed as an important element in the rise of flowering plants.journals.plos.org
TIL about an incredible bird called the Arctic Tern, every year it flies from one side of the planet to the other and back again:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_t…
"Recent studies have shown average annual round-trip lengths of about 70,900 km (44,100 mi)"
A bird species that migrates 70,000 kilometres every year! 🤯
#TIL #TodayILearnt #TodayILearned #Birds #Birbs
TIL about the Cobra effect, referring to a time in the British Raj when people were offered a bounty for every dead cobra. Soon, ppl started breeding cobras for a reward which in turn forced the government to stop the rewards. In response, people released their captive cobras into the wild.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse…
#til #todayilearned
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TIL of Maximator, an intelligence alliance between the secret services of Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, and France. It is comparable to the "Five Eyes" and is named after a German beer.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximato…
#til #todayilearned
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