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TIL of Hero ants. These ants live in cliffs/high places and latch onto intruders of the colony. They then fling themselves off the cliff, taking the intruder with them.

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x4Nb TIL Alexander Bell never called his wife or his mother after inventing the telephone because they were both deaf
XEwmR TIL of a computer program called Deliverance that legally killed several people in the 1990s. It was created by "Dr Death" (doctor and euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke), and came on a special laptop connected to an IV that injected a lethal dose of barbiturates. It was only legal for a short time
NvWM TIL Sony has a patent on making viewers yell product names out loud to end TV ads
logn7 TIL Soviet planned to crush NATO in just 7 day
9K7X TIL that mathematicians have jokingly proposed a standard unit of measurement for beauty: the “millihelen.” Inspired by Helen of Troy, a millihelen is defined as “the amount of beauty required to launch one ship.”