That the vast majority of modern beehives used in the United States and a significant portion of the rest of the world are virtually identical in design and function to the movable-frame beehive patented in 1852 by the Reverend Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth, who clearly must have been some kind of superhero with a name like that.

... okay, that's not the most recent thing I learned, but I wanted to share the coolest name in apiculture with y'all anyway.