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TIL the chicken is the closest living relative to the Tyrannosaurus

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OGyOa TIL about a place with one of the longest names in the world: TaumatawhakatangihangakoauauoTamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahwhich is located 6kms outside of a small village called Porangahau, Central Hawkes Bay, Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Y1AB TIL there is a species of ant that will infiltrate a fire ant colony, kill the queen, then take her place. The workers raise the impostor’s children, which then fly off to infest more colonies. They are being considered as a biological method to control the spread of fire ants.
Em0V TIL That Seth MacFarlane, John Lithgow, Richard Gere, Sarah Palin, Howard Dean, Elizabeth Shue, and Bing Crosby are all descendants of the same Mayflower passenger, William Brewster.
16ym8 TIL the Chew Valley Hoard, a cache of 2,584 silver coins dating to the Norman Conquest (1066-1068), sold for $5.6m to become the most valuable treasure ever found in Britain. Discovered by 7 metal detectorists, the coins feature the likeness of Harold II, William the Conqueror & Edward the Confessor
jNdvX TIL that Adolf Hitler could not prove who his grandfather was, as his father was born illegitimately and his paternity was never established, meaning he could not prove his own "Aryan descent"