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TIL a type of fruit fly has evolved with near perfect images of ants on its wings to deter predators and attract mates

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QNeNa TIL Palestinians celebrated 9/11
gM5x7 TIL that a man named William Carver started a horse diving exhibition in the early 1900’s, where horses would leap off a 40 foot tower into a pool of water.
oBkRK TIL that the version of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" most people have seen is an edited version produced for the 1966 rebroadcast. The 1965 version was considered lost media until 2018, when an original film reel was discovered and its contents were uploaded to the internet
QNej6 TIL of Fordlândia, Henry Ford's failed rubber utopia in the Amazon jungle. In the 1920s, the colony was home to hundreds of workers living a mandatory alcohol-free "healthy lifestyle," including square-dances, poetry readings, and golf, but ended up totally abandoned after riots and crop failure.
5YGLn TIL that the 1904 Olympics Marathon was a total mess. One did most of the marathon in a car, another ate rat poison but survived and one took a nap by the side of the road for some part of the marathon.Details in the link.