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TIL that the soviet cosmonauts celebrated the moon landing in 1969 “with joy and vodka”

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yQXMp TIL that scientists discovered a cannibalistic ant colony composed entirely of worker ants in a abandoned Soviet Bunker in Poland. They had fallen down ventilation pipes leading into the bunker and reverted to cannibalism to survive. The scientists built a bridge that allowed most of them to escape.
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