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TIL Ants can get caught in a circular pheromone trail, so that the whole colony pinwheels forever until they die.

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b9BP7 TIL Howard Hughes was an insomniac and was frustrated that there was nothing good on TV late at night, so he bought a TV station and had it play his favorite movies 24/7.
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