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

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P69J TIL Keurig coffeemaker co-inventor John Sylvan went to the ER reporting tunnel vision and heart palpitations. After a few tests the doctors had no clue so they asked questions like “how much coffee do you drink?” To which John replied “30 or 40 cups a day.” The diagnosis was caffeine poisoning.
NAJP TIL when asked what his inspiration was for the Funkadelic album “Free Your Mind…and Your Ass Will Follow”, George Clinton said it was an attempt to “see if we can cut a whole album while we’re all tripping on acid.”
Nj1E TIL that, thanks to a communication failure, a lot more US soldiers died during the preparation excersize for the “Utah Beach” Normandy invasion than the actual invasion itself.
R4pw TIL that in the online dating world, women are afraid of meeting a serial killer. Men are afraid of meeting someone fat.
vPRxB TIL I learned for the Voyager program engineers computed 10,000 potential trajectories. This was done not only to optimize the journey but also avoid having voyager reach a planet at Christmas or Thanksgiving time.