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TIL female ants that are not queens but are able to reproduce are scientifically termed “gamergates”

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OG8We TIL about Senate Bean Soup which has been on the menu continuously at U.S. Senate restaurants for over 100 years (except for one day during WWII due to rationing)
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6RZY TIL That Michelangelo hid an image of the human brain’s anatomy in the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
OonEe TIL Norway kills more whales every year than Japan and Iceland combined.
dP8j TIL The USSR proposed a doomsday ship; full of fissile material navigating Soviet waters, which would automatically detonate if it detected nuclear war on Soviet territory, filling the earth’s atmosphere with a radioactive cloud.