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TIL There is a Species of Ant that has a Door for a Head

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loEZa TIL about Gunner, Gunner was an Australian stray dog who helped the air-force in WW2. His hearing was so acute that he could detect Japanese planes twenty minutes before the arrived - and before they showed up on radar.
Wkb4N TIL about an actual U.S. Supreme Court case officially known as United States v. 422 Casks of Wine (where the US sued 422 casks of wine and lost)
gM7gA TIL that there is an English word equivalent to the German word: Shadenfreude: Epicaricacy, which means to derive pleasure from another's misfortune.
PYMLe TIL that were was an ice cream brand called Star Spangled Ice Cream, which aimed to be a politically conservative counterpart to Ben & Jerry's (which they considered too liberal). Flavor names included "Smaller Governmint", "Iraqi Road" and "I Hate the French Vanilla".
JY19j TIL that the '@' sign is called 'crazy A' in Bosnian, 'snail' in Italian, 'worm' in Hungarian, 'monkey tail' in Dutch and 'cinnamon roll' in Swedish