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TIL: Ants self-medicate on food rich in hydrogen peroxide to help fight off a fungal infection.

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oEWr TIL the last Attorney General to break with POTUS was Elliot Richardson, who resigned after Nixon ordered him to fire the Special Prosecutor of the Watergate scandal
bd9E TIL there is an island in the Indian Ocean that is illegal to visit due to a native tribe that kills visitors
VMYGG TIL the difference between a graveyard and a cemetery is that a graveyard is connected to a church but a cemetery stands alone.
NXYn6 TIL about Prototaxites, an exctinct genus of fungi that lived around 400 million years ago. They could rich 1m (3 ft) in width and 8m (26 ft) in length, making them by far the largest land-dwelling organism of their time.
nWwNo TIL there's a type of tree in Cancun called the "tourist tree" because the tree's bark is red and peeling, like the skin of the sunburnt tourists in the region