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TIL of Slaver ants - an entire category of ants who never work, and instead capture and enslave other ants as workers

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w6YY TIL the “town” of Monowi, Nebraska has a population of 1. Elsie Eiler, in her capacity as Mayor, grants herself a liquor license and pays taxes to herself.
8a4lP TIL since their inception in 1997, numerous line up changes have left the band Norma Jean with no original members.
5Vv7R TIL that Margaret Fleming (1980–c.2000), who had learning difficulties, was murdered by her carers Edward Cairney and Avril Jones in Inverkip, Scotland. She had not been seen for 17 years before her disappearance was investigated. Cairney and Jones were convicted in 2019; her body was never found.
bZDp TIL that the opposite of Anorexia is called Bigorexia, a disorder in which a person becomes obsessed with the idea that they are not muscular enough.
QNG8d TIL Iranian general Fathollah Minbashian was fired by Shah Pahlavi for being too resistant to foreign interests. After the Shah was overthrown, he offered to serve the new Islamic Republic, but they refused and ironically demanded that he report for the crime of collaborating with foreign powers.