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TIL of a parasitic fungus that turns ants into 'zombies'
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TIL that Henry VIII technically had only two wives , Jane Seymour, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr. Catherine of Aragon and Anne of Cleves weren't divorced, but were instead annulled meaning in legal terms the marriages never existed. Henry did the same to Anne Boleyn before he executed her.
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TIL that Metallica's 1998 cover of Bob Seger's "Turn the Page" was recorded closer in time to the original 1976 live version than it is to the present day.
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TIL that Termites can distinguish between load bearing and non-load bearing timber.
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TIL: Until the late 1400s the word ‘girl’ just meant a child of either sex. If you had to differentiate between them, male children were referred to as ‘knave girls’ and females were ‘gay girls‘.
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TIL that the ♻️ symbol does not mean that the plastic can be recycled