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TIL Certain Ant Species Have Evolved Huge, Shield-like Heads, Which They Use to Plug the Entrances to Their Nests From Predators

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gMVOy TIL a man robbed The Ballagio Casino of $1m in poker chips - that he could only spend at the Bellagio. In a matter of weeks weeks he was down to $20K, spending his winnings on OxyContin, more gambling, and one night a four-hour hand job.
BvAb TIL that after WWI, the US began forced sterilization to prevent ‘imbeciles’ and 'promiscuous’ individuals from having children in order to clean up the gene pool
XEg98 TIL: Of the Losr Apple Project. They go around to abandoned farms and orchards looking for Apple varieties thought to be extinct. This year 10 varieties were recovered, a record.
mxyvP TIL that although camels can drink 200 litres of water, they don't store this water in their humps, but instead in their digestion or circulatory system.
kO9k1 TIL there were plans for a TV series based on the Plain White T's hit song "Hey There, Delilah".