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TIL: Of Dracula ants, so named because they suck the blood of their young in a process dubbed “nondestructive cannibalism,”

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aAGL TIL that in the show Blues Clues, Steve is replaced by Joe because Steve moves to college on a hopscotch scholarship
BgKLk TIL that the second most expensive painting ever sold was ‘Interchange’, an oil by abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning. In 1955 the artist sold it for $40,000, and 60 years later it sold for $300M.
ADyJx TIL that when King Leopold II of Belgium personally acquired the "Congo Free State" in 1885, it was 76 times the size of Belgium. He claimed the land at the 1884-1885 Berlin conference promising to improve the lives of the locals but ended up enslaving them to gather ivory and natural rubber.
gMwvW TIL of the decoy effect. When there are only two options, people may have trouble making a choice. An unattractive third option, a "decoy", can change the perceived preference between the other two. Companies take advantage of this effect to sell its products by cleverly pricing its products.
Z8gg4 TIL of Sally Miller Gearhart, a feminist scholar who proposed reducing the male population because they are 'corrosive to female-led social change."