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TIL - Ants eat more meat than lions, tigers and wolves combined

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P1X4Z TIL of a cricket match, which was played under timeless rules, that was played between South Africa and England, was abandoned as a draw because the English team had to leave to catch their boat home
9EKM TIL in 2012 an 11 year old boy ran away from his mother while shopping close to Manchester Airport. He then boarded a flight to Rome, bypassing security without a passport or boarding card and then into a seat by tagging behind another family. He was on his way to Italy before the crew realised.
69AvX TIL in the medieval era a popular legend regarding the purpose behind the building of the pyramids was to protect all the knowledge of the world from being lost in the great flood. they were constructed some 300 years before the flood by either the prophet Enoch or Hermes
dKWE TIL That a Hard Drive’s data can be viewed with a proper Microscope
jNQea TIL that the world needs topsoil to grow 95% of crops, and we may run out of topsoil within the next 60 years.