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TIL Leafcutter ants do not actually eat the leaves they cut, instead, they use them to fuel their fungus-based agriculture.

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6Ye7 TIL that the 1990 film Total Recall had a planned sequel where Arnold became a policeman and solved crimes before they happened with help from clairvoyant Martians. It was never filmed. Instead, the script was adapted into the 2002 film, Minority Report.
OG4xa TIL how the bugatti family buried their most precious car during WWII to keep it hidden from the invading germans, never to be found again!
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