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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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VMbRQ TIL Wilt Chamberlain's record setting 100-point game on March 2, 1962 was not televised (and no video exists of it as a result); only two different audio recordings from a radio telecast made by two different people (which were combined by historians) survives today of that game
60rQ TIL Red color blind monkeys who underwent gene therapy by having their eyes injected with a red cone, had their color blindness cured, potentially opening a door for curing color blindness in humans.
8PGX TIL Edgar Mitchell, the sixth person to walk on the moon, has claimed that “aliens have contacted humans several times” on Kerrang radio in 2008
d840B TIL Citric Acid, the kind found in citrus fruits such as oranges, is required for almost all life forms on Earth.
9wwAX TIL that Bowling for Soup didn't write "1985." SR-71 were the original writers for their Here We Go Again album which was released a few months before BFS's A Hangover You Don't Deserve in 2004.