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TIL a beetle named after Hitler is in danger of extinction due to its popularity as neonazi memorabilia.

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Vbk4 TIL parents filed an ethics complaint against a High School Biology teacher for using the word “vagina” while teaching reproduction.
yQmGX TIL that weaver ants have it’s the insect version of squeezing glue from a bottle. An adult weaver holds a silk-producing larva in its jaws, spreading the larva’s sticky secretions to bind leaves for the colony nest.
OG7y7 TIL that in 1917, during World War I, the British Army tried to train seagulls to poop on German U-boat periscopes to obscure their view. They even tested it with fake periscopes on beaches, but the gulls were more interested in stealing sandwiches than sinking submarines.
0VYj TIL the US dropped more bombs on Laos during the secret war, than on all countries combined in WW2 - and that 300 people still die yearly from unexploded bombs
J1g6l TIL that there is evidence that Neanderthals may have been a seafaring people, sailing from the mainland to the island of Crete 130,000 years ago.