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TIL that for every human on Earth, there are estimated to be about 2.5 million ants

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XyVD TIL that the little people that played Munchkins in the Wizard of Oz had drunken orgies in the hotel where they were staying, with an unholy assembly of pimps, hookers and gamblers. They needed police on about every floor to contain them.
M7Oem TIL the elderly couple seen hugging on the bed in Titanic (1997) while water floods their room were the owners of Macy's department store, Rosalie Ida Straus and Isidor Straus. Ida refused a seat on a lifeboat, stating "Where you go, I go" which inspired Rose's line in the film.
a8nob TIL that during an equinox, the daytime and nighttime aren't equal. There's another term for that: equilux.
0Zey TIL that when male fruit flies lose a fight, they get so depressed that they stop trying to fight other flies, even if they know they can win.
oeAL TIL that Andre Geim won the satirical Ig Nobel Prize in 2000 for his work on using magnetism to levitate a frog. 10 years later, his experiments regarding graphene won him the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics. This makes him the only ever recipient of both the Ig Nobel and Nobel Prizes.