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TIL that some ants vomit on each other to say hello.

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OoMPX TIL that after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, thousands of hair stylists and alpaca farmers donated over 19 warehouses worth of cut hair to absorb the spilled oil.
dbGj TIL identical twin boys were raised as a brother-sister pair (botched circumcision). The truth came when the one being raised as girl suspected he was a boy; the parents admitted he was the subject of an experiment trying to prove gender identity was nurture, not nature. He later committed suicide.
woevJ TIL that birds are the quickest species to digest alcohol, about 10 to 15 times faster than humans
4kvGb TIL that Mary Anderson invented the first operational windshield wiper but never profited from the invention as her patent expired before it became widely used in the auto industry
ADGJo TIL that women in 1776 - 1807 era New Jersey had equal voting rights