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TIL ants don’t take fall damage
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TIL that a study in 2020 found that Jonah Hill Passed Samuel L Jackson With Most Swear Words on Film
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TIL of Greek athlete Theagenes. A rival athlete beat Theagene's statue. The statue fell on the rival and killed him, was tried, convicted of murder, and exiled by being thrown into the sea. The land became barren and the Oracle of Delphi said it would remain so until the statue was restored
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TIL in 2007, Siberia experienced orange snow. This orange snow was ruled to most likely caused by a heavy sandstorm in neighboring Kazakhstan. Tests on the snow revealed numerous sand and clay dust particles and a high iron-content, which were blown into Russia in the upper stratosphere.
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TIL When the Gulf War broke out, the Canadian Navy was forced to scour military museums for Bofors AA guns to re-equip its fleet - the guns had been retired in the late 1980s but no replacement had yet been purchased.
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TIL because of her mental illness history & how she presented early on, a woman catatonic for 20 yrs wasn't tested for an autoimmune disease until a doctor who was there when she was first admitted in 2000, came across her again in 2020. This led to her lupus diagnosis & treatment which woke her up.