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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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XYpj TIL There are more slaves on Earth today than at any other time in history. Through forced labor, at or below subsistence wages, sex trafficking, forced marriages, etc, there are an estimated 27 Million slaves in today’s world
x6lXk TIL Johnny Carson was asked by Mel Brooks to play the gunslinger character in the movie Blazing Saddles which eventually went to Gene Wilder. Of that screenplay, Carson, while on a Mexican vacation, told Brooks "I read it in L.A. and it wasn’t funny, and it’s even less funny in Mexico."
J1mBQ TIL It takes 17 years to grow a shitake mushroom in the traditional Japanese system. Sawtooth oak logs, the preferred growing medium for shitake, take 15 years to grow. It then takes another two years to inject the mushroom spores into the logs and grow the mature fruit.
VMYb4 TIL the United States Department of Justice has filed a forfeiture complaint in federal court to seize the rights to the movies “Dumb and Dumber To” and “Daddy’s Home,” on the grounds that the movies were financed using money stolen from a Malaysian government investment fund.
ADm8d TIL ancient Romans used urine to whiten their teeth. When left out too long, urine decomposes into ammonia, which is a great cleaning product that takes out stains easily.