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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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wZDM TIL David Attenborough is the only person to have won BAFTAs for programmes in each of black and white, colour, HD, and 3D.
aMdL TIL that a lake in Kazakhstan was created using a nuclear weapon and has decayed to the point that people can swim in it
4k6Kw TIL that many pro archers use surprise release mechanisms to prevent themselves from anticipating and reacting to the impending impact.
v15n8 TIL surgeons at a Dental College in India removed a "well-defined bag-like mass" from the jaw of a 7-year-old boy. It weighed 7 ounces and contained 526 teeth. It took a medical team five hours to meticulously search through and count all of them.
xVDk5 TIL that the Inca people used no money or currency of any kind.