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TIL that ants can count and make small addition / substraction

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k7JW TIL that Hall of Fame boxer Sugar Ray Robinson backed out of a fight because he had a dream that he was going to kill his opponent in the ring. After a priest and minister convinced Robinson to fight, Robinson went into the ring and killed his opponent, Jimmy Doyle
KOnEG TIL every year an estimated 100,000 golf balls are retrieved from the water surrounding the famous 17th "island" hole on the TPC Sawgrass course.
Y76dG TIL Engineer Amos Neyhart originated driver education programs in the United States by starting to teach students how to drive in 1933. A drunk driver hit his parked car in 1931 and he believed that the frequency of traffic accidents was due, in part, to the lack of driver training
bM5p TIL That owls fly silently due to specially designed edges of their primary feathers. When most birds fly, turbulence from air gushing over their wings creating noise. However, owls have their primary feathers serrated like a comb, which divides turbulence into tiny currents aka micro-turbulences.
oRZZR TIL Zip the Pinhead, a famous circus performer reportedly from the Amazon was actually a New Jersey resident who upon passing uttered the final words “we fooled ’em for a long time.”