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TIL There is a species of ants that have formed a single global super-colony

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dDmo9 TIL about actor Jonathan Kendrick Lewis who was arrested three times between 2011 and 2012. In September 2012, he bludgeoned his landlady and her cat to death before falling off the roof of her house where he had been renting accommodation.
QWVp TIL that in 1958 the U.S. Air Force lost a 7,600 lb hydrogen bomb off the coast of Georgia. It’s still there.
nWk4Y TIL There's a huge difference between barbed wire and razor wire (Razor wire uses literal razors in it)
6E1DJ TIL that Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park and many more novels, graduated Harvard Medical School with his MD. He never obtained his medical license (after deciding he hated the system and culture), and instead pursued writing.
Mel4m TIL after recording the first "2000-Year-Old Man" record, Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner weren't sure people would like it. Then Cary Grant played it for the Queen of England, who loved it. Brooks said, "Well if the biggest shiksa in the world loves it, we're home free." The record launched their careers.