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TIL ant queens can live up to 30 years!

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vEPr TIL There is a trade agreement being secretly proposed in countries such as America and Australia, which would allow corporations to sue the government if they attempted to, in any way, lower their potential income, such as providing cheap alternatives to branded medicines.
Pagn TIL Andre the Giant, being too large for school buses, had to be driven to school by playwright Samuel Beckett, his neighbor.
Eom0 TIL that in 1921 a group of whites burnt the wealthiest black community, in the United States, known as “black wall street”, to ground. Firebombs were dropped from airplanes and hundreds were killed. This massacre was not acknowledged in state history records until 1996.
x6kdw TIL that country singer Reba McEntire doesn't write any of her own hits.
0w6Ev TIL of Norman Morrison, who was a Quaker that set himself on fire under Robert McNamaras office in the pentagon. He was protesting the innocent lives that were being taken in Vietnam at the time. The city Da Nang has road named after Morrison in memory of his acts against the US-Vietnam conflict.