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TIL: You can name a cockroach after your ex at the San Antonio zoo

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4X6do TIL of a colony of ants with no queen, no males and no offspring, comprised entirely of non-reproductive females, that live in a disused nuclear bunker in Poland. The colony is supplemented by ants falling through holes in the ventilation which cannot escape.
oBrQY TIL A cow is not a cow until it has had at least one calf. Until then it is called a heifer.
rRomd TIL That Tom Meschery was the NBA's first Russian player, was nicknamed the "Mad Russian" and was the first player to have his number retired by the Golden State Warriors
RG6w TIL that the longest wall in history is not the Chinese one, but the wall in Benin and was over 9,900 miles (16,000 km).
8eJwZ TIL the Olympic Village of the 1980 Winter Games held in Lake Placid became a Federal prison