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TIL People who play video games are more likely to be lucid dreamers (have control over their actions in dreams) than those who don’t

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v1D6x TIL that there are ants called driver ants and are fucking horrifying (if any driver ants are reading please don’t hurt me)
AN0Nw TIL that in 2000, fundamentalist Mormon leader Warren Jeffs ordered his followers to pull their children out of public schools, leading one school district to drop from 1,200 students, to less than 250.
R7mE9 TIL Clint Robertson, the good-ol'-boy contractor from Boise Boys, has a law degree, a business degree and was a contestant on The Apprentice
Oo8xe TIL King Pepy II came to the throne aged nine, and ruled until he was 100. It is said he had a great system for avoiding insects: he would cover a slave in honey. Flies swarmed to the slave and left Pepy in peace.
OGeja TIL the 2019 collapse of the Thomas Cook travel agency triggered UK's largest peacetime repatriation. Called Operation Matterhorn, over 140,000 British tourists were recovered with 150 aircraft in 746 flights. During that time, the UK government briefly was UK's 5th largest airline