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TIL some species of mole rats form superorganisms like ants, split into physically different specialized roles (non-reproductive workers, a single queen, and dispersers)

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D1kNj TIL today (August 24) is International Strange Music Day, started by composer Patrick Grant, who believes “...it is always good to listen and play music that we are unfamiliar with. It keeps our ears and outlook fresh.”
b5y0 TIL In the 50s and 60s the American government forcibly removed Native American children from their parents and put them up for adoption or into institutions, in order to have them assimilate into “white culture.”
rRZd1 TIL that the Quaker Oats Company and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology agreed to pay $1.85-million to settle a federal lawsuit over an experiment in which radioactive oatmeal was fed to boys at a state institution in the 1940s and 1950s.
8bLG TIL Dolphins seem to use toxic pufferfish to get high.
pY1Yp TIL in Machiavelli's comedy "Belfagor arcidiavolo", a demon decides to investigate why humans arrive in hell constantly complaining about marriage life. He gets married, goes into debt, barely escapes his angry creditors, returns to hell defeated and vows to never visit the world of humans again.