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TIL a single ant can live to be 29 years old

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gMkg9 TIL the Antikythera Shipwreck of the First Century BCE, discovered by Greek sponge divers, yielded artifacts including art, jewelry, a statue of Herakles, coins, but most importantly the Antikythera Mechanism, interlocking gears that computed the movements of the sun, the moon, and eclipse dates
BrOOk TIL Ming Dynasty eunuchs and courtesans in the Ming Dynasty formed a distinctive form of marriage in a secretive way. Although Ming eunuchs were incapable of bearing children, they were equally eager to have a family.
R5aeQ TIL: Chechen is a language that originally used an Arabic script, then Latin, and finally Cyrillic starting in 1938. Despite being written in Cyrillic, it maintains the sounds and pronunciations of Arabic.
LrRZ TIL: A morbidly obese woman refused to get free weight-loss surgery offered by the NHS because she didn’t want to lose the £75,000 in disability benefits she was receiving.
R5w99 TIL in 2021, an advisory was issued in Rawalpindi, Pakistan for motorcyclists to install a flexible safety antenna that would connect to the mudguard or handlebar of the motorcycle, arch over the rider, and connect to the rear, in order to prevent death or injury from glass-laced kite strings.