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TIL male ants do not have fathers because unfertilized eggs become males while fertilized eggs become females

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neaxo TIL about Smoky the Yorkie, a pet dog to soldiers in the south pacific, weighing 4lbs, who kept operational 40 United States fighters by running a wire tied to her collar through a 6in pipe, completing a 3 day construction job in minutes. Also had 10 recognized combat flights, 8 combat stars.
VdWZ TIL America is under a perpetual State of Emergency; 30 of them, to be exact. With the oldest dating back to the late 70s.
m1vVP TIL that 1816 is known as the “Year Without a Summer,” due to the eruption of Mount Tambora, the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history.
yEXM TIL when you become blackout drunk it’s not that you forget what happened later on, you were never creating memories to begin with
vP64R TIL of Smoky, the tiny four-pound Terrier dog who served and assisted the US in WW2 after being found abandoned in a foxhole in New Guinea , and who later became histories first therapy dog.