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TIL that ants don’t take fall damage

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GYE7j TIL in 2005 physicists at MIT created a new form of matter, a gas of atoms that shows high-temperature superfluidity.
yQo5w TIL of Philoxenus, a Court Poet for the Tyrant of Syracuse, who was jailed & sent to the quarries for voicing a bad opinion about his poetry, but later pardoned, & brought back for another reading. When the tyrant asked how he liked it, he turned to the guards & said "take me back to the quarries."
R5Ea TIL: TSA must let musical instruments on as carry on thanks to lobbying from musician organizations.
J8Xk TIL that the soviets launched an 80 tonne orbiting battle station equipped with a megawatt laser. It fell to Earth due to faulty guidance systems.
d8r0Q TIL that Polish priest Maximilian Kolbe provided shelter to 2000 Jews during WW2. He was later sent to Auschwitz where he volunteered to sacrifice his life for a stranger.