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TIL that Roger Taylor, Andy Taylor, and John Taylor, all of Duran Duran are not in any way related!

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ZpwAQ TIL right after the Manhattan Project's Trinity explosion test was completed, Kenneth Bainbridge, who was the director of the test, remarked to Robert Oppenheimer that "now we are all sons of bitches." Afterwards, he dedicated most of his scientific career to ending the testing of nuclear weapons.
Qmde TIL An ant mill is an observed phenomenon in which a group of army ants, which are blind, are separated from the main foraging party, lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle. The ants will eventually die of exhaustion.
m14WP TIL "RentAHitman" has an average of 15-20 requests of genuine attempted murder every month for the past 14+ years.
7rXvx TIL that Point Nemo, the point farthest from any land, is so remote that astronauts on the ISS are often the nearest humans
OojK7 TIL A reason why most weddings occur in the summer dates back to the 15th Century, when most people took their yearly baths in May and didn't smell too bad a month or two later. Just to be on the safe-smelling side, brides began carrying bouquets of flowers to hide any developing body odor as well!