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TIL the leopard slug's mating ritual is strangely beautiful

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nWdwB TIL that the Large Blue Butterfly (Maculinea arion) is carnivorous in its caterpillar stage, feeding on the red ant (Myrmica sabuleti) larvae by mimicking the sound and scent of their queen ant to infiltrate their colonies. 40 years ago it became extinct in Britain but was reintroduced from Europe.
DQAmr TIL of a less famous battle at Thermopylae where the Gauls beat the Greeks at 279BC
xVkG1 TIL As a part of Guatemala's elite Kaibiles military program, "each prospect must take care of a puppy for the two months of training and then kill it and eat it to teach themselves that the ultimate loyalty on the battlefield is survival".
kONj4 TIL after being married three times, Whoopi Goldberg said she realised "I don't want somebody in my house" and has been much happier single ever since.
ADvv7 TIL Isaac Singer, the inventor of the Singer Sewing machine had 24 children across the USA, UK and France. Six of these children came from a relationship with Isabella Eugenie Boyer, a 19 year old French woman that the Statue of Liberty was based on. He left $13m estate to his 20 surviving children.