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TIL ants take their dead back to their nests to be put into a burial chamber with their other deceased.

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0d0Yj TIL that scientists weren't able to synthesize human growth hormone up until the mid 80s, so the hormone was extracted from the deceased.
QJd8p TIL that David Mech, who came up with the concept of the alpha wolf, later rejected the notion and now teaches against it.
d9oZ TIL Rudy Eugene, the “Bath Salts Zombie” that bit off a man’s face in 2012 while supposedly high on Bath Salts, had no sign of the drug in his system (or any drug other than marijuana) when the attack occurred.
GYMmJ TIL about Conformal Cyclic Cosmology, a modern cosmological model that says the universe iterates through infinite cycles with one universe's infinite expansion eventually giving rise to the next universe's Big Bang singularity.
epgBD TIL the oldest known human drawing is a 73,000-year-old cross-hatched pattern made with ochre on stone flake, found in South Africa. This discovery predates previously known drawings by at least 30,000 years, revealing early Homo sapiens' ability to create symbolic designs using various techniques.