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TIL the Bermuda Triangle has as many disappearances as any other place in the ocean of a similar size and many of the mysteries attributed to it happened outside of the triangle.

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R7Ddl TIL of Ben L. Salomon, a U.S. Army dentist during WW2, assigned as a front line surgeon. When the Japanese started overrunning his hospital, he took action, allowing the safe evacuation of the wounded and killing as many as 98 enemy troops before being killed himself during the Battle of Saipan.
ANNog TIL of a type of ant called a "gamergate". It is a worker ant that can lay eggs and reproduce (unlike typical worker ants which are sterile), and some species of ants have completely replaced queens with gamergates.
awYWJ TIL that the largest organism on Earth known to man is a fungus which is thousands of years old, in Oregon.
D47r TIL Jeremy Clarkson’s fondness for wearing jeans has been blamed by some for the decline in sales of denim in the mid-1990s, particularly Levi’s, because of their being associated with middle aged men. This is known as the “Jeremy Clarkson Effect”.
XlEX TIL that all able bodied male citizens of the United States, aged 18-45, are legally part of the Unorganized Militia.