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TIL that they are more than 13.800 known ant species on Earth.

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NgX8 TIL that the NBA’s all-time leading scorer (with 38,387 points), Kareem Abdul-Jabaar, has become an author and prominent historian since retiring from the NBA as well as a cultural ambassador for the United States.
0dmlA TIL a third of the metal used to make the Tokyo tower came from damaged American tanks from the Korean war (1950-1953).
XEYNr TIL Charlie Chaplin got the inspiration for the classic Modern Times after a conversation with Mahatma Gandhi on modern technology.
r6rd TIL at 15 Jim Carrey was a full time janitor, supporting his family who were living in a van. In 1990 while broke, he wrote himself a $10M check dated Nov of 1995. In 1994, he landed his breakout role in Ace Ventura, then The Mask, and Dumb & Dumber, putting him over the $10M mark by the end of 1995
Eg4m0 TIL that the words “right or wrong,” are not definite, absolute or finite. They can have multiple meanings based on the person using the words as they are disambiguous.