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TIL that there are Ant Species which hold Slaves and Slave Ants who rebel against them.

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0wRaL TIL that in Brazil, you are not generally expected to be on time to social engagements, unless someone specifies “English Time”. Outside of Western Europe, US, Japan, and Korea, punctuality largely does not have high importance.
LRKZ TIL The element Phosphorus was discovered in 1669 by a German Alchemist who was trying to make gold out of urine.
wn5o TIL a school headmaster in Britain had to resign after he announced the retirement of a teacher using acrostic writing, where the first letters of each word spell out a hidden message. His statement began “We all now know every really great teacher has to finish one day…”, spelling out ‘wanker’.
VXjp TIL that the best selling mystery novel of all time, written by Agatha Cristie, was originally titled Ten Little Niggers. It sold over 100 million copies.
GYXbN TIL the likely record for fastest manmade object is a manhole cover launched by a nuclear bomb. A high-speed camera recording the lid only caught one frame of it moving meaning it was traveling over 125,000 miles per hour