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TIL: Slave ants get revenge by killing their captors’ babies

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KYvkQ TIL red blood cells don’t have mitochondria or a nucleus
QN7gL TIL that the U.S. developed “Operation Cherry Blossom,” a plan to spread plague-infected fleas in Japan during World War II. Although never executed, it highlighted the lengths nations would go for biological warfare and sparked discussions on bioethics.
R7lVQ TIL in 1624 Marco Antonio de Dominis was publicly burned at the stake by the Catholic Church for his many “heresies” in both science and philosophy. Among them — being first to use science to accurately describe how rainbows are formed.
R5544 TIL that the first Olympic PED violation was pentathlete Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall, who drank two beers to "calm his nerves"
WkP49 TIL that a 13-year-old kid won a contest to draw their own Robot Master for the game Mega Man 4, that kid went on to be the artist of the One Punch Man manga