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

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yVNMp TIL Japan has a high adoption rate - but most of the adoptees are middle aged men
l7Pd1 TIL that there are two shipwrecks that touch each other in Apra Harbor in Guam. The interesting part of this is that one wreck - German SMS Cormoran - was sunk in WW1, and the other - Japanese Tokai Maru - was sunk in WW2.
xVY77 TIL Urine was so important to the textile industry of 16th century England that casks of it–an estimated amount equivalent to the urine stream of 1000 people for an entire year–were shipped from across the country to Yorkshire
OGBrY TIL scientists made a computer model and concluded that giraffes would perform poorly compared to other mammals and are hence likely to avoid swimming if possible.
8xPZ TIL of the 2003 Iranian film, Crimson Gold. The lead role of a suicidal, schizophrenic pizza delivery man was played by an actual paranoid schizophrenic pizza delivery man, who had never acted before. The film was banned in Iran for being “too dark”.