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TIL about theyellow crazy ant - a invasive species of ants that look "crazy" when disturbed as they start to move erratically.

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AN9aB TIL Rafflesia arnoldii, the corpse flower, or giant padma, is a species of flowering plant in the parasitic genus Rafflesia. It is noted for producing the largest individual flower on Earth, over 3 feet in diameter. It has a strong and unpleasant odor of decaying flesh.
xyGo TIL the manager and producer of The Rolling Stones failed to see potential in Jimi Hendrix
7oap TIL Eleanor Roosevelt had an aversion to sexual intercourse, and considered it “an ordeal to be endured”
VME14 TIL that Polish intelligence officer Witold Pilecki volunteered for a resistance operation to be imprisoned in Auschwitz in order to gather intelligence about the camp. He organized a resistance movement in the camp, sent information to the Allies about what was happening there, and escaped in 1943.
R77k1 TIL Halloween is a satanic holiday and we should stop celebrating it