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TIL that Kenya’s national motto is “Harambee,” a Kiswahili phrase that can be translated as “let us all pull together”

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p8PxG TIL some Spiders pretend to be Ants, waving their front two legs like antennae, and copying ant zig-zag locomotive behavior in order to trick would-be predators like birds and spider-wasps into thinking they're an unpalatable or aggressive ant.
44PR TIL that there’s an underground city beneath Beijing that covers 85 square kilometres. Built in the 70s in preparation for nuclear war it’s described as being “dark, damp, and genuinely eerie”
MKEV TIL the actor and actress who play Snow White and Prince Charming in ABC’s Once Upon A Time, met on set, fell in love, and are now married in real life.
P1kEL TIL the gourd was one of the world's first cultivated plants grown not primarily for food, but for use as containers. It is also used as a resonator on many stringed instruments, including the sitar
b6EG7 TIL that, the astronomer Patrick Moore, whose fiancée was killed by a German bomb in 1943, said in 2012 that “We must take care. The Germans will try again, given another chance” and “the only good Kraut is a dead Kraut.”