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TIL that queen ants can live up to 30 years

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wR68 TIL The airplane used for the disaster movie Airport crashed during a real flight afterward, killing 36.
X7Oj TIL in 1988 Cosmopolitan claimed that unprotected sex with an HIV-positive man did not put women at risk of infection and that it was impossible to transmit HIV in the missionary position.
e0nmn TIL that in Peru in 2007, a meteorite impact caused a "mystery illness" that turned out to be widespread arsenic poisoning from the meteorite evaporating contaminated groundwater
4XR6b TIL that in Django Unchained, Leonardo DiCaprio felt uncomfortable saying the 'N' word repeatedly, so Samuel L. Jackson pulled him aside and said, "Hey motherfucker, this is another Tuesday for us. Let's go!"
R5MAj TIL W.E.B. Du Bois was an early supporter of eugeniics in the United States