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N7Zl6 TIL Adidas refuses business partnerships with any organization that has ties to Scientology; including a contract clause for existing partnerships that states, “any organization or association which represents the principles of L. Ron Hubbard will be void."
l7Ey5 TIL of ant-fungus mutualism. Leafcutter ants cut leaves and transport them back to their nests, where the leaves are used to cultivate fungus which is used as a food crop. In some advanced genera the queen ant may take a pellet of the fungus with her when she leaves to start a new colony.
jNpBj TIL a reverend of the Freedom Church of Revelation asked the Vice Chancellor of Delaware for permission to settle a lawsuit with a "trial by combat to death." The Vice Chancellor rejected this request. This happened in 1983.
xVLM0 TIL bread is bad for ducks.
M7kXK TIL that fossilization is so unlikely that scientists estimate that less one-tenth of 1% of all the animal species that have ever lived have become fossils.