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TIL that when fire ants are gathered into a group, they act like a fluid

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5rLD TIL Andre Royo’s performance as “Bubbles” on The Wire was so convincing that a Baltimore resident gave the in-character Royo a small package of heroine. He calls this moment his ‘street Oscar.’
Z8Qo4 TIL of Sir David Brailsford, a British cycling coach who theorizes if you make a 1% improvement in a host of tiny areas, the cumulative benefits will be extraordinary. Utilizing this theory of "marginal gains"; his teams have won 18 gold medals, six Tour de France titles, and 59 World Championships.
8aKJX TIL three-toed sloths only poop once every three weeks because their metabolism is so slow
m1LVR TIL that an $80 Windows program sold in 1995 claimed to double your system’s RAM. Researchers found that it just changed a system setting users could change for free, and reported false system information to the user. After an FTC settlement, buyers got a $10 refund.
OR71 TIL over 300 incidents of child murder occurred in 1700s Germany and Austria due to incidents of “suicide by proxy”. Religious people were killing young children in order to have the government execute them so they could get into heaven.