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TIL 52-foot-tall 'megaripples' from dinosaur-killing asteroid are hiding under Louisiana

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GAMmj TIL Due to restrictions on Germany after WWII banning aircraft production, former bomber designer Ernst Heinkel temporarily switched to producing scooters, mopeds, and even the Heinkel Kabine bubble car. While his company did return to building planes, scooter production continued until 1965.
8amOP TIL that virgin queen ants leave their existing colony to form their own in a process known as nuptial flight. In preparation for the flight, males emerge from their pupa case and are "quickly converted into single-purpose sexual missiles."
W8e4 TIL that people in Jamaica (with a more than 90% black population) are bleaching their skin to look more “attractive” to the other sex.
VMmJQ TIL Whole Foods hires its employees by a process known as "Team Member voting" (Where your coworkers in your department will vote on you. A 2/3rd majority of them must vote to keep you on in order for you to stay and become a regular team member).
eMnJ TIL in 1993 a student at UPenn was charged with violating the university’s racial harassment policy after calling a black woman a “water buffalo”. The university claimed it was racist: “a water buffalo is a dark primitive animal that lives in Africa.” Water Buffaloes come from Asia.