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TIL a single ant can live to be 29 years old

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xVA95 TIL the US military's Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) can project speech narrowly enough to be heard by a single person 300m away. American soldiers in Iraq used the device to speak directly to specific insurgents, claiming to be the voice of God and ordering their surrender
awg50 TIL a woman was killed in her car in Brooklyn when a bullet ricocheted off of the ocean nearby and hit her through her open car window. The perpetrator was a man who’d been practicing shooting at a floating beer can on his boat in the middle of the bay.
eoa5 TIL in a 2014 study of 3,000 married couples, Emory University discovered that couples who spent more than $20K on their wedding are roughly 46% more likely to get divorced than couples who spent $5-10K.
Qgye TIL Jason from the Friday the 13th is unmasked in nearly every film and has had a different looking face each time
xV5G1 TIL that serial killer William Suff used one of his victims as an ingredient in a chili contest and won first place