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TIL Mother Teresa tried to baptize dying people without telling them and found the suffering of poor people as beautiful

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wXgW TIL that ants have two stomachs: a personal stomach and a group stomach, or crop. When an ant with a full crop meets a hungry nestmate, it will throw up a drop of food and pass it to the other ant, mouth to mouth. The polite word for this is trophallaxis.
LkBwd TIL in January 2013, a lorry carrying 27 tonnes of Brunost (Brown Goat Cheese) caught fire in a Norwegian tunnel. The high temperature from the combusting fats and sugars caused the blaze to last five days and resulted in severe damage to the tunnel.
KOBxB TIL after he graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in social studies, Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello moved to Los Angeles, where he supported himself, first by working as a stripper
0dAxR TIL Pupil dilation from the dilating eye drops given before an eye test lasts longer in people with blue eyes than brown eyes.
9wdoM TIL The statue of young David was made from a flawed piece of marble that had been ruined by two artists, and no one was willing to work on it. Despite the flaws in the marble, Michelangelo accepted the challenge and created this masterpiece.