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TIL the West Shore Line railroad tracks go under a large portion of the US Military Academy at West Point, NY

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JYkw1 TIL that wood ants practice chemistry, and will synthesize an antibiotic substance using tree resin and formic acid to protect the health of their colony. It is considered to be the most advanced act of evolutionary pharmacology seen in the animal kingdom
KO1eB TIL of the 1975 Moorgate tube crash, where 43 people died and 74 were injured after a London Underground train failed to stop and ran into a dead end at speed
YgpW TIL that the public had little knowledge of FDR’s paralysis and that he had a “gentleman’s agreement” with the press to not photograph him in his wheelchair
GAKg5 TIL that male Ohio residents have to pay out-of-state tuition fees at Ohio universities if they aren’t registered with Selective Service, and some states like Alabama and Tennessee won’t admit men into state colleges at all if they haven’t registered.
M177 TIL scientists have released millions of genetically modified mosquitoes on the island of Grand Cayman in an effort to combat dengue fever, resulting in an 80% decrease in mosquito numbers.