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TIL the We Can Do It poster is not Rosie the Riveter and was only used internally by one company

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JYkw1 TIL that wood ants practice chemistry, and will synthesize an antibiotic substance using tree resin and formic acid to protect the health of their colony. It is considered to be the most advanced act of evolutionary pharmacology seen in the animal kingdom
NXrQE TIL There is mention of existence of multiverse and multidimension in Bhagvad Gita.
LkGg9 TIL towards the end of filming the first Harry Potter film, Daniel Radcliffe's voice broke. For the final filmed scenes, a "soundalike" child actor, Joe Sowerbutts, was recruited to overdub his lines in post-production.
Oo0m1 TIL the first Rain Checks were given to baseball fans in the 1870s as they left games that had been stopped due to rain. They were slips that allowed the fans to come back and see another game for free.
axvL TIL that Betty Boop was actually based off of an African American singer whose singing trademark was “Boop oop da doop”. The resemblance between the two of them is uncanny.