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TIL that Earth And Venus Form a Stunning Pentagrammic Pattern in Space

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Z8dO4 TIL that the Nazi-collaborationist government of France ironically held an entire trial to blame the generals of the democratically elected French Third Republic for losing the Battle of France to the Nazis in 1940.
7Wv7 TIL termites may produce up to two litres of hydrogen from digesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
8ePwV TIL - Ants sometimes lay a trail of pheromones that circles back onto itself, trapping all the other ants in a death spiral where the entire colony runs to death.
x6lD5 TIL about the strangeness of Puritan names. For instance, Kill-sin Pimple did jury service in the 1650s. There was also Fear-not Helly, born in 1589, and Praise-God Barebone, who was the relative of Fear-God Barebone. And there are Humiliation Hynde, NoMerit Vynall, and Sorry-for-sin Coupard.
JGMV TIL when an American soldier looses his penis as a result of wounds sustained in combat, there are no disability payments, or mental health services after the wound is initially treated.