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TIL of honeypot ants, force fed until their abdomen swells, they function as food storage for ants.

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071A TIL that there is a single that was featured on the Billboard charts in 1979, but no copy of the song is known to exist today
Eg95W TIL of Carlos, Prince of Asturias. Due to him having four great-grandparents instead of the maximum of eight, he had numerous issues such as roasting animals alive and whipped a serving girl when he was eleven. He became so mentally unstable that he died in solitary confinement at 23 years old.
ONja TIL that the U.S has detonated 1054 nuclear bombs in tests
ELw7 TIL during the Cold War, the BBC planned to air “The Sound of Music” after a nuclear strike to improve the morale of survivors.
bYY0 TIL in 2002, Santa Claus topped the Forbes Fictional 15 list with an estimated net worth of $∞.