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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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rRo11 TIL leopard slugs have 27,000 teeth.
9YMwX TIL A community college in the Bronx uses the same cirriculum as Columbia University in the Ivy League. For the past three years, professors at Hostos have been teaching a version of the Columbia Core in their freshman composition classes
w58M TIL The face of Yoda in ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ was based on the face of Albert Einstein. So was, to a lesser extent, the face of E.T.
OGQjR TIL about the Cleveland Clinic X-ray fire of 1929, a tragedy that resulted in over 120 deaths
OGgWY TIL from watching a movie with Swedish subtitles that “the end” in Swedish is “slut”