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TIL about the yellow crazy ant

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oBAwE TIL that the Swedish Navy was chasing around fish farts thinking it was a Russian Submarine
neLvY TIL a University in Japan built a laser that outputs 2,000 trillion watts which is basically a billion times more powerful than a stadium light. They are trying to recreate the early parts of the universe by building such a powerful laser.
rNMgo TIL papayas can naturally change sex while growing and scientists are working on methods to produce fruit-only plants
6EWY7 TIL that "Xmas" is not only not "taking the Christ out of Christmas" but the term Xmas Dates back to the Original writing of the New Testament, which called Christ "Χριστός" which was then used in the context of Christmas around 1100 AD as the term Xmas, with "X" being shorthand for Christ.
yVvLe TIL about "The Lexicon of Comicana" by cartoonist Mort Walker, which posits a universal symbols set for comics/cartoons/etc., and written in response to the engagement w/ his 1964 satirical piece "Let's Get Down to Grawlixes". A grawlix (obscenicon) is typographical profanity censorship i.e. $#!7