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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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morM TIL during the third reich, a company made a board game version of the holocaust called ‘Juden Raus’
5YAMr TIL of the Tulsa Center of the Universe. An acoustic anomaly located in Oklahoma. When one stands in the center of the circle and makes a noise, that noise is echoed back several times louder than it was made, but no one standing outside the circle can hear a thing.
pYEBp TIL that in 2004 the average attention span was found to be 150 seconds long. By 2012 it had declined by half to 75 seconds, and by 2018 the average attention span had decline further to just 47 seconds long.
XYeX TIL while on duty at a Soviet nuclear attack warning station in 1983, Stanislav Petrov’s computer indicated the US had fired several missles. He decided his computer was faulty and urged against a launch. He was right, averting nuclear war, but was not rewarded and was reprimanded by his superiors.
nal9 TIL It is impossible to drive from Central America to South America due to the Darién Gap, a 99 mile long area that spans across the border between Panama and Colombia where there are no roads but only mountains and swampland.