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TIL Some ants will make themselves explode as a last resort during a fight

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VMxDk TIL that in 1872, politician Boss Tweed fled to Spain to escape being convicted on fraud charges. However, he was deported and sent back to the US after Spanish authorities saw a political cartoon of him and mistaked him for a child abductor.
GA5DE TIL if people had herbivorous pets instead of dogs and cats, 6.9 billion animal lives would be spared from slaughter every year
d8WXQ TIL There is a 3D printer named "The Vulkan" that can build a 800-square-foot home in 24 hours for $4,000 or less.
8e4eG TIL After his fall from power, Cesare Borgia died while besieging a small castle in Navarre: He was chasing a party of knights in the early morning under heavy rain and fell into an ambush. He was stabbed 25 times, indicating that he attempted to take on the ambushers on his own
0J7N TIL In 1995 a Marine fell overboard his ship unnoticed. He survived by treading water for 3 days until a Pakistani fishing boat found him.