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

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8axyK TIL the oldest existing, continually operating higher education institution in the world is the University of al-Qarawiyyin in Fez, Morocco - it was founded in 859CE by a Muslim woman, Fatima al-Fihri.
1LA7 TIL Charles Lyne, a British filmmaker, raised $8486 to force two people to watch a 10 hour 7 minute movie of paint drying. Those two people were employees of the BBFC, responsible for classifying movies, and the stunt was done to protest the BBFC’s power of censorship.
9mg7 TIL the oldest and second oldest hotel in operation in the world were built in year 705 and 718 with in Japan
VBg5Q TIL you purchase bees by the pound. You can buy about 3 lbs of bees for $175
rPM1 TIL So dubious was the 2003 documentary, Living With Michael Jackson, that Jackson himself produced a video rebuttal using footage that he recorded parallel to documentarian Martin Bashir’s, after Bashir selectively edited and voiced-over footage to create a false and negative image of Jackson.