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TIL ants don’t take fall damage

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8aR78 TIL a wooden ladder has been leaning in the same place since at least the 1750s, and cannot be moved due to disagreements between six different sects of Christianity
4XaNN TIL Disney uses code names in the park. Rude visitors are called 'Treasured Guests.' Vomit is called 'Protein Spill.' Kids peeing in the pool is called 'Code Winnie.' Illegally spreading ashes is called 'White Powder Alert.'
J1DRV TIL in 1859 Delos Ashley and David Jack bought nearly all of the California town of Montery for $1,000. David unethically evicted his tennants and claim their products including a monestary's cheeses. Jack sold those cheese and it was so popular his buyers called them "Montery Jack's Cheese."
9Drm TIL: The symbol “lb” for pound comes from an abbreviation of the constellation Libra, the scales.
W7NGL TIL the evolutionary leap from egg laying to placental birth may have been helped by DNA from an ancient retrovirus, which coded for a protein allowing cells around the placenta to fuse, blocking the exchange of maternal-fetal blood and preventing the mother’s immune system from harming the fetus.