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TIL ants can teach each other in a way that both the instructor and the student modify their behavior to benefit the other.

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R5re6 TIL about an Australian jellyfish that causes Irukandji syndrome: excruciating muscle cramps, severe pain in the back and kidneys, a burning sensation of the skin and face, headaches, nausea, restlessness, sweating, vomiting, and psychological phenomena such as the feeling of impending doom.
E1pgp TIL the name of the color crimson comes from the name of a Mediterranean insect whose dried body was used to create vibrant red dye.
5VPQD TIL a 35-year-old Japanese man Ryuta Watanabe has 4 wives and 2 girlfriends, has not worked in over a decade and aims to have the most kids in Japanese history with 54 kids.
VMBKQ TIL that Iron Maiden's frontman Bruce Dickinson never got into drugs and showed his kids what people that got messed up by drugs looked like to let them judge for themselves.
GxE5 TIL Roman Emperor Commodus was known to fight exotic animals in the arena, often to the horror of the Roman people. He once killed 100 lions in a single day. For each appearance in the arena, he charged a million sesterces, straining the Roman economy.