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TIL There are roughly 10 quadrillion ants on earth

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4XG5N TIL That 16000 Hz Sine Waves are used by some grocery stores to deter teenagers after curfew. The reason these sounds work is because kids and teens hear them, but adults can’t. This is caused by the ears’ “age”. For people in their 30’s and older, they can’t hear these specific 16000 Hz sounds.
j61xv TIL Napoleon III popularized the term Latin America to justify taking control of Mexico
NamM TIL “hocus pocus” may have been coined by Protestants to mock the Catholic transubstantiation incantation used to turn bread and wine into flesh and blood, “hoc est corpus.”
XmkX TIL The shortest living human on record (Pauline Musters) stood only 1 foot 11.2 inches in height and died at 19 from pneumonia and meningitis.
jKdQ TIL: The Soviet Union held it’s own version of the Olympic Games in which anyone could participate. The number of participants one year reached 90 million people.