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Today I learned that the last Rosie the Riveter was involuntarily laid off from her job at the age of 95 in 2014.

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awDJA TIL that ancient Greek historian Herodotus once reported that there existed gold-digging ants. This was most likely a translation error. But there are marmots in the Himalayas of the Deosai plateau where local tribes have been known to collect gold dust from their burrows