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TIL that the attine ant species invented agriculture long before humans, and have entire gardens of fungus in their nests

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woEQY TIL that Paul Bearer the manager of WWE wrestler The Undertaker, had an actual degree in mortuary science.
e0lL6 TIL that Pangaea is only the most recent super-continent, and there have been at least 6 similar geological events termed “Wilson Cycles”
Jym4 TIL a patient with Dissociative Identity Disorder who was blind for 15 years began regaining vision after psychotherapy. When a personality with vision was dominant the electrical activity in the visual cortex was normal. A blind personality would shut the visual cortex of their brain off.
XEVo8 TIL that until the Salary Grab Act was passed in 1873, President Ulysses S. Grant earned the same salary as George Washington did 80 years earlier.
ne7BP TIL when poisonous frogs are fed zoo diets they no longer become poisonous. The wide variety of food in the wild supplies them with the chemicals for making poison.