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TIL Ants sleep for 5 hours a day in short 1-2 minute naps with their longest being around 10.

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Z84xY TIL in 2012, Mountain Dew asked the internet to name their new apple drink. Before the poll was shut down, the top four names were: "Fapple", "Gushing Granny", "Diabeetus" and "Hitler did nothing wrong".
NK91 TIL that a town called Sweetwater, Texas, as well as most of the Southeast, hold a form of a rattlesnake holocaust each year and have been doing so since about 1939.
1ap9D TIL: the case of Philip Clay, adopted as a child, deported as an adult; Clay ends up committing suicide. There are thousands of people like him, adoptees who did not know they were still not legally us citizens because their adoptive families never filled out the paperwork.
V0n0 TIL that President Cleveland considered the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii as dishonourable, and wanted to restore the monarchy, and members of the American military involved were forced to resign their commissions
WkmQ9 TIL that slaveholders in the US knew that enslaved people were escaping to Mexico, the U.S. tried to get Mexico to sign a fugitive slave treaty, but Mexico refused to sign such a treaty, insisting that all enslaved people were free once they set foot on Mexican soil.