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TIL that there are estimated to be 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 individual ants alive on Earth at any given time, with their biomass outweighing all humans and marine fish combined

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mxKZR TIL that the state vegetable of Oklahoma is watermelon. A watermelon is a fruit.
E1Kv0 TIL Scientists trained 17 rats to drive tiny cars; each rat stood on the aluminum floor of the car & gripped copper bars with their paws to complete a circuit to propel the car. By touching left/center/right on the bar, rats could steer to pick up rewards of Froot Loops morsels in the arena.
OGkrR TIL about Kristina Ozturk who has 22 children and is only 26. 21 of the children were born by surrogacy, with her husband who is 32 years older than her, and is also in jail.
wZDP TIL that an American schoolgirl became famous in the USSR after she wrote a letter to the newly appointed Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Yuri Andropov, and received a personal reply which included an invitation to visit the Soviet Union, which she accepted
9YZ0Q TIL Police in Japan still wear white gloves after The Beatles toured there in 1966 and the authorities were worried about holding crowds of screaming girls back with bare hands.