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DQYGp TIL about Colobopsis explodens, the "suicidal attack ants" found in Southeast Asia. Their rare combat mechanism involves workers exploding in self-defense, smothering enemies with toxic "yellow goo."
p84v8 TIL that the phrase "And I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for you meddling kids!" Was never said throughout the entire original run of Scooby Doo. Also, the phrase "Meddling kids" was only used 3 times.
78RKP TIL Ginkgo trees are so hardy that six of them are known to have survived the atomic bomb and are still growing in Hiroshima. The species of these trees is called relict. This is because they have been living on the planet for more than 200 million years.
4XYjN TIL in 1963 that a 21-year-old rock and roll star named Ulysses Baxter pushed a peanut up Pikes Peak mountain with his nose! He had attached a salad spoon to his nose and pushed for 8 days until he reached the summit. The craziest part is that he wasn't even the first to do this!
GA1Q4 TIL a 2003 publication by the Infectious Diseases Society of America noted that The Andromeda Strain is the "most scientifically accurate of all films of this [killer virus] genre ... it accurately details the appearance of a deadly agent, its impact, and the efforts at containing it.