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TIL eating poppyseed can affect your drug test and make it positive!

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7rvK7 TIL About 70% of the radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl disaster landed in Belarus, heavily contaminating one-fourth of the country, one-fifth of its agricultural land and affecting at least 7 million people.
KOW8B TIL Some ants will do anything for sex! In this clip from "Natural World: Ant Attack" this ant pulls his own wing off to mate with a queen!
v4A4 TIL a gladiator named Asteropaeus fought 107 times and survived to retire
GYe71 TIL that although Balto is famously accredited for the 1925 Alaskan serum run, it was actually another Siberian Husky named Togo that lead the most perilous leg of the relay. Togo ran over 300 miles while the other relay sled teams, including Balto, averaged around 31 miles.
9YVWp TIL Astronomers have discovered a "zombie" star that went supernova in 1954...then again in 2014. Lead author: "This supernova breaks everything we thought we knew about how they work."