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Y7Gbx TIL less than half (43%) of the cells in the body are human. The rest belong to microorganisms and bacteria.
ng5Y TIL that Great Britain is “Great” because Brittany is “Lesser Britain”
kONPE TIL "jerry-rigged" is actually spelled "jury-rigged," from "jury" as in "temporary" and "rig" from its sailing origins.
wXgW TIL that ants have two stomachs: a personal stomach and a group stomach, or crop. When an ant with a full crop meets a hungry nestmate, it will throw up a drop of food and pass it to the other ant, mouth to mouth. The polite word for this is trophallaxis.
D1wD TIL that on Freddie Mercury’s final album before his death, he wrote and recorded a love song to Delilah, his cat.