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TIL With more than 7,253 known glaciers, Pakistan contains more glacial ice than any other country on Earth

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vP6Xr TIL Fig wasps die inside of female figs to pollinate them. If the fig is male they lay eggs inside and the circle of life continues.
6ExEW TIL before the mass marketing of tobacco, lung cancer was so rare that doctors took special notice when confronted with a case, thinking it a once-in-a-lifetime oddity.
P11ew TIL about Mitsuye Endo who was a plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court lawsuit that ultimately led to the closing of the concentration camps in the U.S. and the return of Japanese Americans to the West Coast in 1945.
Qmde TIL An ant mill is an observed phenomenon in which a group of army ants, which are blind, are separated from the main foraging party, lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle. The ants will eventually die of exhaustion.
X0AAD TIL there's a people and a language called Anāl