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TIL There is a vault in the arctic that stores over 860k different varieties of food crop seeds as an insurance policy for the world’s food supply

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JJa8 TIL ants take their dead back to their nests to be put into a burial chamber with their other deceased.
gk08 TIL Cats love green kalamata olives. They contain a compound similar to that in catnip.
0wy5j TIL Sardinians split off from mainland Europeans about 4300-7000 years ago and have remained largely isolated genetically. They're the closest proxy to the Early European farmers who migrated all over Europe from Anatolia, introduced agriculture, and mostly replaced the European hunter-gatherers
pYOjN TIL Bananas Are Viewed As Bad Luck On a Boat, and Have Been Since the 1700’s
8aEoV TIL of Ferdinand Waldo Demara. A professional imposter who posed as a surgeon aboard a Canadian Navy vessel. When needed, he quickly studied a textbook in his room, operated, and saved sixteen people. After being exposed he was acquitted of any charge and sent back to the U.S.