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

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XE94X TIL When Chinua Achebe became the editor of the Heinemann African Writers Series, one of the first books he chose was a collection of stories by Cyprian Ekwensi. Ekwensi became one of the most prolific African writers of the twentieth century
mnxy TIL: Cameron Diaz and Snoop Dogg used to go to the same high school and she bought weed from him
YO1Z TIL Pixar credits its success to its anti-Disney approach: no songs, no happy village, no love story.
P1pkw TIL twins can have different dads by the occurrence called heteropaternal superfecundation
e0Yob TIL that support ships called 'Destroyer tenders' were common in navies in the first half of the 20th century; one Destroyer tender would travel with multiple destroyer ships, carrying supplies for them, thus extending their collective range on the open ocean