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TIL There are fossilized plants over 4500 feet beneath the ice sheet in Greenland

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ney5d TIL about the Wolbachia bacteria, which can only be transmitted by females, so eliminates males by killing them or turning them female, and enables host females to reproduce without males
MeaxA TIL Steve Jobs threw such a tantrum when he was given the employee number 2 that he even cried. He also was so hellbent in be before Steve Wozniak that he then demanded to be Employee #0.
j6wwE TIL the lead singer of "You Got It All" (1986) by The Jets, which reached number 3 on the Hot 100, was 12 when her voice was recorded for it. She had trouble emotionally connecting with the song's romantic lyrics due to her age so her manager told her to imagine that she was singing it to a puppy.
1aPkd TIL: Archaeologist Alexander Peev was executed by firing squad in 1943 on suspicion of sending a coded message to the Soviet Union. It was actually an ancient inscription he wanted Russian archaeologists to help him interpret. The text remains undeciphered.
0pO5 TIL that a tribe in Brazil uses a glove filled with hundreds of the most painful ants stinging ants in the world, the bullet ant, as an initiation rite for young men. The rite can happen for up to ten minutes, must occur a total of 20 times before the boy is declared a man.