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TIL that in Colorado, the mile 420 sign on Interstate 70 got stolen so many times that it got replaced by a sign reading mile 419.99

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1ark7 TIL that Allied soldiers summarily executed guards at Dachau after discovering the concentration camp. Estimates vary as to how many but range between 35 and 50.
9b0p TIL a biotech startup has managed to 3-D print rhino horns that genetically similar to a real horn. The company plans to flood Chinese and Vietnamese markets, where demand is high, and bring down the price.
wXgW TIL that ants have two stomachs: a personal stomach and a group stomach, or crop. When an ant with a full crop meets a hungry nestmate, it will throw up a drop of food and pass it to the other ant, mouth to mouth. The polite word for this is trophallaxis.
Rpvw TIL in 1979 flying LAX-JFK and upgrading to first class was only 20% of the ticket price. Today it’s 225%.
yVlMw TIL of La Bougie du Sapeur. A French satirical newspaper that is only published 29th February. It has been published since 1980 and there have been a total of 12 issues to date