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TIL there are at least 20 quadrillion ants on earth - roughly 2.5 million per person 🤯

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POZe TIL Moses Fleetwood Walker was actually the first African-American to play in organized baseball. Walker broke the Color-Barrier in 1884 and played one season as the catcher of the Toledo Blue Stockings.
1aGvd TIL former NFL players have formed a group pushing for NFL to allow players to use Cannabis and curb the painkiller epidemic
7rrEx TIL Disney while making Coco tried to trademark the phrase "Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)", a Mexican holiday for a centuries old sacred tradition. A trademark that also included applications pertaining to toys, cereals and jewelry.
a8peZ TIL Don Featherstone, creator of the plastic pink flamingo, died of Lewy Body Dementia. The same disease that took Robin Williams.
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