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TIL Tupac Amaru Shakur was named after Tupac Amaru II who led the largest anti colonial rebellion in Spanish American history in 18th century Peru

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dDr7Q TIL ant corpses release a chemical when they die. A scientist once recreated this chemical and put it on a live ant. Its ant friends kept bringing it to the graveyard no matter how much it struggled to return.
D1Oer TIL about the Bay of Jars. A collection of ancient Roman ceramic jars found in the waters outside Rio de Janeiro suggesting that the ancient Romans visited Brazil centuries before the Portuguese.
xKaw TIL Ants can count.
Lkj4V TIL that mere hours are sufficient to form fossils aka the Medusa Effect aka flash petrification
JY79m TIL about Operation Chariot. The WWII mission where 611 British Commandos rammed a disguised, explosive laden destroyer, into one of the largest Nazi submarine bases in France filled with 5000 nazis, withdrew under fire, then detonated the boat, destroying one of the largest dry docks in the world.