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TIL: that ants can perform wound care and amputate if needed. I find this fascinating.

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D1xwe TIL about the American town 'Merrymount', founded 1624. Named from slang at the time for 'illicit' forms of sex - the town rejected Puritan values welcoming non-Heterosexuals, freeing indentured servants and intermarrying Native Americans. Five years later it was invaded and razed to the ground.
J1aAk TIL Sea Otters use rocks as tools.
a6kA TIL Tolkien didn’t write the Elvish languages to fit into the Lord of the Rings, but wrote the Lord of the Rings as a history for his over 15 different languages
6Pl8 TIL That NASA is investigating technology that could lead to a warp drive.
M7AVV TIL airports hire crews of "birdmen" that use methods like horns, sirens, lasers, and pyrotechnics to ward off large groups of birds. They even intentionally remove horizontal branches from nearby trees to discourage large migrations from settling near the runways.