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TIL Army Ants Are Being Used To Stitch Up Wounds In The Villages Of Africa

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9wlyM TIL the Pāli/Sanskrit word “muditā” - the Buddhist practice of deriving pleasure from the well-being of others. Also known as compersion, sympathetic joy, or vicarious joy, muditā is the opposite of jealousy.
XX1P TIL there is a species of mite that lives on your face that has no Anus and collects poo throughout its life, when it dies it “explodes” with waste
vPm8R Til that indiana tried to make Pi 3.2
ANWEB TIL wild blueberry farming in Maine traditionally involved burning the fields every year, a technique learned from the Passamaquoddy tribe, since most of the plant mass is underground
W79pB TIL that in Austria, public insurance requires scientific proof of effectiveness in order to reimburse medical treatments, but exceptions are made for homeopathy.