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TIL Some ants form “supercolonies,” massive communities of ants that can stretch for thousands of miles.

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loj9V TIL only four people have been at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, called the Challenger Deep (about 11000 meters or 36000ft down). For reference, 12 people have walked on the Moon.
RYe4 TIL a Georgian man was frustrated about not being able to sell his house and, after a phone call with his wife about it, decided to drive a truck through his living room. When the police arrived to question him he told them he was hot and that opening a window simply wasn’t enough.
wYD6 TIL While filming a scene for Chinatown, Roman Polanski wouldn’t allow a bathroom break for Faye Dunaway. In protest, she pissed in a coffee cup and threw the urine in his face.
jyvE TIL Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson were college room mates and staged a break-in of their own apartment to convince their landlord to fix the windows. A private investigator eventually tracked them down.
kJ7Dm TIL the famous "Tank man" from the tiananmen square protests was never identified.