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TIL New Ant Species Discovered in the Amazon Likely Represents Oldest Living Lineage of Ants

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6lOQ TIL The same man, Mel Blanc, voiced the characters of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the Cat, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Marvin the Martian, Pepé Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, Wile E. Coyote, the Tasmanian Devil, Barney Rubble, Mr. Spacely, and Woody the Woodpecker.
4XO9J TIL the British call sausages "bangers" because sausages had a habit of bursting (banging) open while cooking
GYKlg TIL when the Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov visited the US in 1962, the American press initially portrayed him as affable and polite. But when he said, "I saw neither angels nor God up there. I believe in man," the press quickly turned on him and accused him of spreading "anti-religious propaganda."
xYGB TIL the US Supreme Court case Baker v. Carr (which enabled federal courts to intervene in redistricting cases) was so contentious that one of the justices chose to retire for stress-related health reasons without giving an opinion.
rR754 TIL that rats masturbate