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TIL that wood ants practice chemistry, and will synthesize an antibiotic substance using tree resin and formic acid to protect the health of their colony. It is considered to be the most advanced act of evolutionary pharmacology seen in the animal kingdom

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1avX TIL, according to the director, that the unopened package in Cast Away contained a working solar-powered and waterproof satellite phone.
5Yvdk TIL: That you're not supposed to shake a can of spray paint which mixes the pigment and solvent, instead use a swirling circular motion to dissolve the pigment in the solvent. You know you're done when you hear the metal ball in the can revolve around the inside without resistance.
X0roP TIL 18-year-old Chinese soccer player Zhang Cheng participated in the 2007 Special Olympics in Shanghai; he went on to have a professional career in China's top league, winning the league champion title in 2020
yonp TIL Walt Disney originally planned EPCOT to be a functioning Utopian city of the future.
yVJma TIL the highly poisonous plant deadly nightshade was named belladonna (beautiful woman) because women used its juice in eye drops to make their eyes look more seductive