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KKLQ TIL There are 14 species of ants that enslave other ants
4nxN TIL that a 2010 study showed that 5000 people with PhDs were janitors.
615X TIL in 1940 a Soviet scientist brought a dead dog’s head back to “life” (It responded to external stimuli) and then brought a clinically dead (drained of blood for ten minutes) dog back to life. He received the Lenin prize.
69XKw TIL about Ota Benga, an indigenous Mbuti who was featured at a 1904 human zoo (Louisiana Purchase Exposition). There he was kept, caged, with an orangutan as an attempt to ridicule Darwinism. He was given a bow and arrow so as to "enhance the primitive image".
M7NN8 TIL that Japan’s Imperial line has Korean roots