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TIL there are wasps feeding on tarantulas, and they lay their eggs in them to feed on the tarantula while it's still alive

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rRaV1 TIL The ancient Egyptian “Festival of Drunkenness” was a yearly commemoration of humanity’s saving from the goddess Hathor after she got drunk and fell asleep. They would spend a day drinking and having sex, then be woken up the next day by loud drum-playing.
R7bna TIL Cardiologists do unnecessary heart surgery for profit, sometimes surgically operating on the patient the first time they meet them through hardball sales tactics
waP8 TIL that there is a plant called Acacia phlebophylla which only grows in one place in the world, Mount Buffalo in Australia. It also happens to be one of the purest natural sources of the psychadelic drug DMT.
GAgJ TIL that China has practiced a form of gift exchange that goes back to the 7th Century where a Panda is given away for the purpose of diplomatic relations. This practice is known as “Panda Diplomacy”.
rR1o1 TIL killer bees are not natural and were created by scientists trying to increase honey production.