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TIL ant queens can live up to 30 years!

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VMakB TIL that a 2019 poll found that only around three in ten Americans enjoy changing the clocks for daylight savings time, while seven in ten would prefer to stick to a standardized time all year.
1aYnD TIL that when the 1982 Tylenol murders occured, Johnson & Johnson recalled 31 million bottles of Tylenol capsules despite it being their bestselling product and accounted for 17% of J&J's profits. However, the move was a huge PR success and is now studied as an exemplary case of crisis management.
0wpxy TIL Scott Fahlman is credited with originating the first ever smiley emoticon, which he thought would help people on a message board at Carnegie Mellon to distinguish serious posts from jokes. He proposed the use of :-) and :-( for this purpose, and the symbols caught on.
Br6GD TIL that historians believe that the worst year on earth was 536. This included a volcanic eruption that spewed ash so far that the earth lost the sun for a year, deadly famines, a plague, and a small ice age. Historians also believe that this year started the end of the Byzantine and Roman Empires
WBR8 TIL A man in Canada smuggles Trader Joe’s branded groceries from the US to sell in his store “Pirate Joes” in Canada.