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

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QNbpM TIL peanut allergies plummet by 77% if they're added to babies' diets at 4-6 months of age
KYZmR TIL the weight of Greenland's central ice sheet has actually pressed the land under it to the point where central Greenland is below sea level.
GAoxQ Today I learned about the 20 year old Belgian man who died from eating 5 day old spaghetti.
m0gR TIL that Fly Agaric mushrooms, which look like Super Mario Bros. mushrooms, contain a psychoactive chemical that can cause micropsia/macropsia, aka the illusion that objects around you are larger or smaller than they actually are.
d5D8 TIL in 1991, an cosmic particle hit the atmosphere at over 99.999999999999999999999% the speed of light. It was dubbed the Oh-My-God Particle.