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TIL there are ants that stink: "odorous house ants"

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4oB5 TIL that when Frederick the Great banned coffee in Prussia in 1777, saying beer was superior for “breakfast drinking,” people started drinking a coffee substitute called “Muckefuck.”
9Yb7Q TIL that Human milk contains components that are indigestible to human infants. Instead, these components seem to have evolved specifically to feed important gut bacteria.
BbPr TIL that “Arabic numerals” are actually “Hindu numerals” and Arabs call the system, correctly, “Hindu numerals.”
b6Rya TIL that the flexbone formation in American football which is commonly used by military academies to run the triple option was actually first used in the run and shoot offense,which is a pass heavy offense
ERXx TIL there have been more deaths in Chicago from gang violence than troops killed in Afganistan since 2001.