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TIL that during the Korean War a ship designed to carry 12 passengers saved more than 14,000 refugees in a single mission.

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OG6ae TIL: Ants invented agriculture 50-60 million years ago, right around the time that the first primates appear in the fossil record. These ants cultivate a domesticated fungus for food in underground greenhouses and tend to it through watering, weeding, and pest/disease control.
oRkBo TIL that Donald Duck has a twin sister: Della Duck
jn7X TIL As a child Joe Walsh struggled to learn the guitar solo to the Beatles “And Your Bird Can Sing”. Upon meeting a Beatle years later he found out it was an overdubbed two-part solo and that he might be the only person in the world that could play both parts at once.
5j0n TIL that without enzymes it would take about 1 millions years for our body to extract energy from ATP
9YoYQ TIL Gulliver's Travels by Swift was largely changed by others in later editions from the original biting satire to remove a lot of the satirical tone and make it more passable for the general public's consumption. It was basically changed from political satire to a children's book.