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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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XE97D TIL that tomatoes contain similar protein structures to grass pollen, and thus can cause mouth irritation for hay-fever sufferers
BYBe TIL when filming Return of the Jedi, Carrie Fischer would get quite concerned for Warrick Davis, who was only 11 years old at the time, being in that hot Ewok suit, so she would have chocolate milk and cookies ready for him whenever they took a brake
DQw6e TIL James Longstreet’s (Confederate general and US Minister to the Ottoman Empire) second wife, Helen Dortch Longstreet, died in 1962 at the age of 99. They got married in 1897, he was 74 and she was 34. She was widowed in 1904, childless.
YLJB TIL in the movie Lion King, it took approximately three years to animate the two-and-a-half-minute wildebeest stampede scene.
64n8 TIL “Twister” (1996) was given a PG-13 rating by the MPAA Code and Ratings Board for “intense depiction of very bad weather.”