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TIL that ants can grow their own food, keep livestock, teach their younglings, bury their dead, wage wars, medevac and care for their injured, keep slaves and build massive cities and supercolonies spanning several continents

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1avVD TIL that Roman Emperor Caligula once appointed his favorite horse, Incitatus, to the senate. Many think that this was because of Caligula's very known insanity, but there are suggestions that it was an elaborate prank to mock the senate and say that even a horse could easily perform their duties.
LQWMm TIL the NFL formed a committee to falsify information in order to hide brain injuries sustained by their players.
m1rBx TIL that EU plans to subsidise small-scale sustainable farming and young farmers
VMkJD TIL that the Germans tried banning the Americans from using shotguns during WWI, a weapon most notably used for clearing trenches with devestating efficiency.
GYrJ1 TIL Elephant tusks are starting to get smaller and in the future more Elephants will be without tusks because we killed most elephants with big tusks and removed them from gene pool.