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TIL that US Law does not protect speech that is “likely to provoke the average person to retaliation”

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XEGYX TIL of a parasitic fungus called cordyceps that infects ants. Once a spore finds a host it grows a network of roots inside, delivering chemicals that will eventually give the fungus full control of the ant, using the body to reach a suitable place to grow. It anchors down with its jaws, permanently.
X0E0D TIL who Hattie Alexander was. An early pioneer in DNA research, her groundbreaking work on influenzal meningitis significantly reduced infant death rates and advanced the field of microbiological genetics. In 1964 she was the first woman to be elected president of the American Pediatric Society.
BrmMr TIL that we are we living in an ice age that started approximately 3 million years ago.
W7Ya4 TIL that dingoes were brought to Australia by humans around 4,000 years ago, and are actually an ancient breed of domestic dog
VBE0B TIL in 1790s Samuel Ireland announced a rare discovery of Shakespearean manuscripts and plays. Experts were convinced they were real. Shakespearean scholar Edmond Malone proved the handwriting was forged and William Henry Ireland, Samuel's son and lawyer-apprentice, eventually confessed to the hoax.