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TIL People sometimes resort to amputating limbs to prevent the spread of infection. Woodworm ants, specifically C. floridanus, have also been observed to do this. They will gnaw off an injured leg of a fellow ant in order to save the other ant's life.

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pYPgZ TIL Alaska is so large and deserted, it has the equivalent population density of 16 people living in Manhattan.
0dG8R TIL: The earliest citations of 'motherfucker' came from the Texas Court of Appeals’ account of the 1889 trial of Levy v. State, where witnesses describe a defendant being called a “God damned mother-fucking, bastardly son-of-a-bitch.”
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gM59A TIL that in 1986, when a murdered woman was found by her husband in their LA apartment, the LAPD considered the case a botched burglary. The woman’s father said that an old lover of his daughter’s husband-an LA cop, was the murderer. He was proven right by a DNA match over 20 years later.