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TIL During breeding season some ants grow wings to fly and procreate with different colonies... then once they're done the wings shed and then grow again next breeding season. However if they are no longer fertile, they won't grow wings ever again.

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KQBw TIL in the movie ‘Groundhog Day’ that writer/director Harold Ramis original script had Andy McDowell’s character living the time loop with Murray, that Murray kept track of time by reading a single page a day in the library until finished, and the time loop lasts 10,000 years
OoAoX TIL The name "Sri Lanka" does not come from the fact that it is by far the biggest island off India's coast (Lanka just means "island"). The honorific "Sri" came with the independence movement in British Ceylon. So the name doesn't mean "Lord Island" or "Great Island" but rather "Sovreign Island".
X00nX TIL: In 1793, Diego Marín Aguilera flapped the wings of his man-powered glider, reached a height of about 5m and flew over 300m before crashing because of a broken metal joint. The inhabitants of the town believed him a lunatic, heretic, or a fraud, and burned his "demonic" flapping-wing creation.
4X7Ao TIL the 'neck rule' regarding exercise with a cold. If all your symptoms are above the neck, like congested nose and sore throat, then you're much safer to indulge in mild to moderate physical activity than if the symptoms are below the neck, like fever, chills, body aches or a cough
x6vxg TIL about psychedelic cryptography - messages that only people under the influence of psychedelics can understand.