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TIL the mite A. grandis rides on the chins of ants, tapping the ant with its long forelegs inducing the ant to regurgitate food for the mite to eat (up to 5x/hr). The mite also steals food being passed to the host by other ants

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9wvB6 TIL of the Uncensored Library, a Minecraft server and map released by Reporters Without Borders to circumvent censorship in countries without freedom of the press. Several countries have their own wing with their banned media in English and the original text.
b6DRZ TIL that during the 2001 anthrax attacks were exacerbated by mail sorting machines that diffused the spores into the air. Attempts to clean these, again made the situation worse.
6MZJ TIL Colonel SANDERs got fired from a dozen jobs; was a lawyer who once assaulted his own client in court; started a restaurant that when went out of business and found himself broke at the age of 65; That’s when he started KFC
xv8D TIL in Asian languages such as Chinese, dyslexia is much less common, and involves different brain mechanism than dyslexia in western languages.
xVyy1 TIL the axolotl can regenerate its limbs and parts of its brain. Its genome is also 10 times larger than the human genome. Today, scientists study the axolotl as a model of limb regeneration in vertebrates. There are only about 1,000 left in the wild.