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TIL that older termites are used as suicide bombers.

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QJonk TIL that William Atherton who plays the lawyer Walter Peck in Ghostbusters was so hated that after the movie came out he was harassed on the street and challenged to fights in bars.
wr58 TIL the X-Files episode ‘Home’ which was about a murderous inbred family was based on a story from Charlie Chaplin’s autobiography where a family introduced him to their quadruple amputee son by pulling him out from under a bed after which he “flopp[ed] around” while they sang and danced.
epxg5 TIL about Weh Antiok Khosrow, a town whose name literally meant "better than Antioch, Khosrow built this." When the Persians captured Antioch in 540 they relocated the population to this new city. Khosrow wanted them to willingly stay so he built amusements like a circus for them to enjoy.
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eNWE TIL Ant Man made his Marvel debut before Spider-Man, Hulk, Thor and Iron-Man.