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grvB9 TIL ants that farm aphids influence the aphids’ genes in a similar way that we do with cows. Aphid-farming ants prefer and select for red/green polymorphism.
oB1or TIL that according to Graham Nash, Jimi Hendrix was unbeatable at the game Risk, especially while on LSD.
X0OZP TIL 130 million American adults have low literacy skills with 54% of people 16-74 below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level
KYJpE TIL That the universe has an average color called “Cosmic Latte”
gM7L4 TIL in the US in the late 19th Century it was briefly fashionable for people to form "13 Clubs" where they would dine in groups of 13, walk under ladders, spill salt at the table, etc. to demonstrate their lack of superstition. Several future US Presidents participated.