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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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Y7gxZ TIL that the Order of the Crescent is an organization of knights of the Ottoman Empire, and the first knight is Horatio Nelson, who was crowned in the victory at the Battle of the Nile.
kvVd TIL in Germany there is a flooded mine in which you can go scuba-diving.
kJodg TIL The films used for the Hasselblad cameras taken to the Moon were prepackaged in light-tight magazines that snapped onto the camera body. The Apollo 11 moonwalk made do with a single magazine without changing films outside at all
kJr9d TIL that the term “brain freeze” to describe a cold-stimulus headache was only invented in 1991, and is a trademark of 7-Eleven.
D1OYe TIL that in France, students are taught that there are 5 continents. This blew my mind because in the USA, I learned that there are 7 continents and thought it was a universal fact.