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TIL Fire Ant’s Antenna are so sensitive, one tsp of recruitment pheromone is enough to create an ant trail 120 million miles long; that’s 5000 times around the Earth!

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PYP4V TIL that Theodore Roosevelt --a successful boxer at Harvard, got into a bar fight after a man called him 'four eyes' in reference to his spectacles and suggested he pay for drinks. The man held two guns and told Roosevelt to "set up the drinks." Roosevelt knocked him out and took away his guns.
nWlyP Today I learned McDonald's french fries supposedly tasted better prior to 1990. That is when McDonald's stopped using beef fat and began using vegetable oil with beef seasoning(making the fried not vegan or vegetarian).
oB0nA TIL of the cyber sitcom starring Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry to accompany the Windows 95 launch
meMx TIL the Jimmy Carter Administration installed Solar Panels on the White House to heat water, then the Ronald Reagan Administration took them down and cut tax credits to renewable energy research.
1JrX TIL that in Japan there is a railway company that employs a cat as a “Super Station Master”. She is the only female employee in a managerial position