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TIL that ants belonging to the species Megaponera Analis rescue injured ants during battles

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OGavg TIL the very first phone call was between the head of Motorola to his rival at Bell Laboratories to brag, "Joel, this is Marty. I'm calling you from a cellphone, a real, handheld, portable cellphone."
oB6Po TIL a study in 2014 found men are generally more spiteful than women and young adults more spiteful than older ones, and that spitefulness generally cohabits with traits like callousness, Machiavellianism and poor self-esteem.
M7M5a TIL that war has two distinct meanings: as a noun it means a state of armed conflict between different countries or groups; as a verb it means engage in a war.
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