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TIL that ants will defend other creatures such as caterpillars from the parasitoid wasp, as the parasites actions would endanger the relationship that the ants have themselves with caterpillars.

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E19Nw TIL that during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in the 40s, an American named Claire Phillips ran Manila's hottest nightclub which was a front for a spy ring that funneled information from drunk Japanese officers to guerilla groups outside the city.
8bN4 TIL: Palindrome is not a palindrome, but it is a semordnilap, which is a word that means something different backwards. Semordnilap backwards is palindromes.
wmVJ TIL Blackbeard was remarkably judicious in his use of force. In dozens of eyewitness accounts, there is not a single instance in which he killed anyone prior to his final, fatal battle with the Royal Navy. “I haven’t seen a single piece of evidence that Blackbeard ever used violence against anyone.”
eRnb TIL that Mormons baptized 380,000 Holocaust victims posthumously, seriously offending a lot of Jewish people.
9wOEX TIL In rural regions of West and Central Africa, bushmeat constitutes 80–90% of animal protein intake. Bushmeat means meat from wild mammals, reptiles, amphibians and birds that live in the jungle, savannah or wetlands, contributing to biodiversity loss because there is growing demand abroad