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TIL There are 14 species of ants that enslave other ants

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yVB8X TIL About Vincent 'Chin' Gigante who was the Don of the Genovese crime family. Ultimately convicted of racketeering and obstruction of justice charges Gigante spent years feigning insanity walking around Greenwich Village in a bathrobe mumbling incoherently.
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