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

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8aKEX Today I learned that the First Federal Congress of the United States met on March 4, 1789. Its first official act was to adjourn the meeting for failure to achieve a quorum. It would first achieve a quorum on April 1, 1789.
J1MW1 TIL that grapefruit juice should not be mixed with some drugs, because it can affect the speed of drug's metabolization, resulting in too big or too little dose.
R7okw TIL of Australian serial killer William MacDonald. When he left a victim under his shop and fled to another city police failed to link it to the other murders and assumed the rotting corpse was MacDonald, who was declared dead
8a5Za TIL that shark skin is not soft, but feel more like sandpaper.
8ewmb TIL according to the Romans, their founder fled to Carthage from Troy during the Trojan Wars and seduced the Carthaginian Queen, prompting her to commit suicide when he abandoned her for Italy