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TIL "Chemist" wood ants create a powerful anitbiotic from tree resin and formic acid to protect themselves from epidemics and deadly fungi

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D1e0g TIL that the plot of Super Mario Bros. 3 is entirely a stage play, with stage curtains being drawn at the start, props that cast shadows, and Mario exiting the stage to the right upon completing a level.
BgZEd TIL of Maple Syrup Urine Disease; a disorder inherited via genetic mutations causing an infant's urine to smell sweet, like maple syrup.
WGG9 TIL Burj Khalifa isn’t hooked up to a municipal wastewater treatment system – so when you poop in the building, that waste is actually trucked out of the city.
7EZM TIL Cliff Burton won a cards game and chose to sleep in Kirk Hammett’s bunk. The following morning’s tour bus accident left Burton the only victim.
P6gO TIL: When identical twin, basketball players Brook and Robin Lopez were both playing for NY-based teams, they considered living together. They then decided against it because their cats didn’t get along.