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TIL Worker ants take hundreds of 1-2 minute naps per day, so that they can essentially work around the clock

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rRwb1 TIL about Continuum, an AIDS denialism magazine that shut down because all its editors died from AIDS.
J1PbQ TIL- The Lend-Lease bill signed by President FDR during WW2 was called House of Representative bill 1776 (H.R. 1776). The bill was purposely given the code 1776 as a jab at Britain but it allowed Britain to borrow an unlimited amount of money and supplies to defend against Hitler.
N5Xe TIL X-Men has often been compared to the African-American Civil Rights movement, with Xavier as MLK and Magneto as Malcom X.
D1MOe TIL NASA will pay you $19,000 to lay in bed for two months!
ExR0 TIL before modern weight training, pairs of old church bells were often fashioned together by a rod so they could be lifted. The clappers were removed making the bells silent, or dumb, hence the term ‘dumbbell.’