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Today I learned it’s supposed to be “champing at the bit” rather than “chomping”

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MBQm TIL of the Slave-Making Ant. They capture and enslave the young of other species of ants.However, some species of the captured ants have been noted to rebel overtime, toppling the nest of their captors and putting up their own Queen as a new ruler.
KYYna TIL that the only guests that attended the funeral of Spanish serial killer José Antonio Rodríguez Vega (who was killed after being stabbed 113 times by fellow inmates) were the gravediggers hired to bury him
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