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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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b6lwa TIL screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (A Few Good Men, The Social Network) takes six to eight showers a day to get over writer’s block. If writing isn’t going well, he takes a shower, puts on different clothes, and tries again.
e0pWk TIL Despicable Me is the highest-grossing animated franchise ever, even beating Shrek.
oRl87 Til the first recorded use of sonar technique was by Leonardo da Vinci in 1490
e0a8k TIL 7-time Tetris World Champion Jonas Neubauer is married to the reigning Dr. Mario World Champion, Heather Ito
4kXM5 TIL National Lampoon released a full length parody of Frank Herbert’s Dune - called Doon, the dessert planet. Giant pretzels replaced sand worms and the most valuable substance was beer, not spice