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TIL about "Moon Trees", trees whose seeds have orbited the moon on Apollo 14. Many are still alive today.

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Q9xL TIL when the KGB tried to blackmail Indonesian President Achmed Sukarno with videotapes of the president having sex with Russian women disguised as flight attendants, Sukarno wasn’t upset. He was pleased. He even asked for more copies of the video to show back in his country.
mxZQy TIL Ravoux's slavemaker ant is a species where the queen can fake her own death to encourage ants from a rival colony to drag her body back to the nest. When there, she kills the nest's queen and bathes in her pheromones, becoming the new queen. Her soldiers overrun the colony and take control.
bBD4 TIL ecstasy isn’t actually that bad for you. Actually, it could be a good treatment for PTSD. Thanks pharmacy school.
GYRm1 TIL that NASA makes a movie poster every time the send an expedition to the international space station. Some of the themes are The Matrix, Star wars and Pirates of the Caribbean.
GGQJ TIL that Aztec king Montezuma II consumed up to 50 pitchers of liquid chocolate a day.