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TIL this abandoned, unfinished 50,000 square foot mega mansion on 32 acres in Oregon was built by Hollywood Video founder Mark Wattles. It was to feature an indoor sports court/pool and a 60-car subterranean garage. He spent $12 million and then never finished it...

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mxZQy TIL Ravoux's slavemaker ant is a species where the queen can fake her own death to encourage ants from a rival colony to drag her body back to the nest. When there, she kills the nest's queen and bathes in her pheromones, becoming the new queen. Her soldiers overrun the colony and take control.
n1KG TIL Einstein, a parrot with a vocabulary of about 200 words, gave a TED talk.
VM6YG TIL that New Zealand is the freest country in the world (2020) with the US placed 17th.
gMZ07 TIL over half of all the world's cobalt comes from the Congo, much of it mined by children and slaves, and is a crucial ingredient in all lithium-ion batteries, especially electric car batteries and clean energy storage, and is often classified as a conflict mineral.
meLP TIL Trey Parker hated the episode ‘Make Love, Not Warcraft’ so much, he tried getting the executive producer to pull the show from airing, and couldn’t even sleep the night it aired. The episode is regarded as one of the best in the series.