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TIL that older termites are used as suicide bombers.

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MabV TIL that the Twenty-seventh Amendment was ratified after an undergraduate student at Texas University wrote a paper on the amendment. His instructor gave him a ‘C’ calling his idea “unrealistic”. The student then started a letter writing campaign to State Legislatures to get it passed.
7rjJ7 TIL ferrets are carnivores that primarily eat prairie dogs and then steal their burrows
gMApX Today I learned Pabst Blue Ribbon is ass
mxgPE TIL in psychology and behavioral economics, the endowment effect is the finding that people are more likely to retain an object they own than acquire that same object when they do not own it.
jNjov TIL Looney Tunes director Chuck Jones did not like the movie "Space Jam." When he was invited to speak at a dinner at Warner Bros. he gave his honest opinion. He was not allowed to finish and was escorted out by security.