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TIL Research on Ants with barcode tags shows that Ants take sick days. When some members of the colony are exposed to pathogens, they spend less time in the nest.

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VMYOZ TIL in a case study patients were given an experimental drug to treat their Parkinsons disease, 11 of the patients experienced intense urges to gamble their money despite little interest in gambling before. Even losing large sums of money. All the patients stopped gambling when tapered off the meds.
gMnLy TIL that in 1995, Dutch electronics engineer Jan Sloot claimed to have invented a data sharing system that could store a complete movie in eight kilobytes; he died one day before signing a deal, and despite months of searching, the system's compiler program has never been found.
D1WEg TIL after the Apollo 11 crew returned to Earth, they were quarantined for 3 weeks to prevent any possible microbes from the Moon infecting Earth. However, Buzz Aldrin saw ants crawling in and out of cracks in the concrete, meaning even smaller microbes could have gotten in and out of quarantine.
LQgOp TIL about the Mongolian "Dzud" of 2009-2010 that killed 22% of their livestock and doubled the price of meat.
yV7ra TIL about Daeseong-Dong, a South Korean village located in the DMZ. Due to the many dangers and restrictions on living there, residents of the village are exempt from compulsory military service.