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TIL certain ants "farm" other insects, specifically aphids, raising them in herds and "milking" them for honeydew; making ants in many ways the world's oldest farmers

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P14AZ TIL that elephants in Kenya's Kitum Cave venture into the dark to mine salt by breaking off rocks, adapting to their mineral-poor environment.
ADGml TIL that ‘seven nation army’ is how a young Jack White used to mispronounce the Salvation Army.
QJ5aM TIL Anglo-saxon king "Æthelred the Unready" is a pun. His epithet is derived from "unræd", which means "poorly-advised", while Æthelred's name means "well-advised". He was therefore "Well-advised The Poorly-advised".
dD79Q TIL of the first recorded purpose-built haunted house attraction--the Orton and Spooner Ghost House, which opened in 1915 in Liphook, England. Closely resembling a carnival fun house, it was powered by steam. It still exists in the Hollycombe Steam Collection.
gpY7 TIL The number of aircraft destroyed during WWII is greater than the number of aircraft that currently exist in the entire world today.