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TIL that ladybugs can get STDs (Laboulbeniales fungus)

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7rkLx TIL that the mirror 'self awareness' test was conducted on ants, and the results showed that they may actually be self aware. A blue dot was painted on individuals in a place they could not normally see, and they did not attempt to clean it off until they were in front of a mirror.
MVb7 TIL n 2008, hydroelectric power contributed to 98.5% of Norwegian power generation.
DOdp TIL studies suggest working out 7.5 hours/week is the exercise benefits “sweet spot”, cutting risk of premature death by 39% compared to non-exercisers.
5VAl9 TIL that there have been several scientific papers published associating the winning chances in football or soccer matches with playing a short pass based possession game, now known popualrly as tiki taka
wLLW6 TIL that a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-II successfully took four pictures of the death camp in action that were smuggled out of the camp by the Polish resistance in a toothpaste tube #1-2 cremation of corpses in a fire pit from the chamber #3 naked women before they enter the chamber #4 miss-aimed