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TIL ants nurse their wounded comrades after a raid. And if they deem themselves too deeply wounded they'll refuse treatment so they can tend to other ants with higher chances of survival.

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GErJ TIL Geraldo Rivera is largely responsible for the Satanic Ritual Abuse Panic of the late 1980’s
6EPew TIL that there was a successful chess-playing machine called "The Turk" constructed in late 18th century. Its secret, a chess master inside, wasn't revealed for almost a century.
BrJBr TIL when Martin replicated Joan Baez's Martin 1929 0-45 (purchased in 1962), they included a replica of the note "Too bad you're a communist" which they found inside her original guitar. It was put there by some unidentified repair person sometime in that guitar's 40-ish year career.
mxAOo TIL Astronauts only get paid about $70,000 starting out
VM0yG TIL, The unsinkable HMS Titanic was on fire before it left port. The iceberg it struck whilst at sea was only part of the reason it sank, as the fire had already weakened the ships structural integrity.