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TIL about exploding ants (Colobopsis explodens) who sacrifice themselves to save their colony

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J1Rbv TIL about Bison Dele. Bison was on the 1996-97 Bulls championship roster. He then signed a 7 year 45 million dollar contact with the Pistons, but retired 2 years later. He wanted to sail with his girlfriend, but was murder by his brother. His body has never been found.
JY7p8 TIL that when trees evolved nothing could decompose them, until a fungi learned. All coal comes from before the fungi learned.
E1yP0 TIL Beekeeping has been going for thousands of years and it was wide spread in the Levant regions by 1500 BCE. The practice was so important for the local economies that in the Hittite laws the penalties for stealing a swam of bees or empty hive was about the same as the fine for stealing a sheep.
ANP5w TIL that Red Stripe Jamaican Lager was originally brewed in Galena, Illinois, in the 1930s. The recipe was sold to British investors after the brewer faced financial troubles
ra9e TIL in 1967 a magazine published a fake story about extracting hallucinogenic chemicals from bananas to raise moral questions about banning drugs. People didn’t realize it was a hoax and began smoking banana peels to try to get high.