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TIL in sign language your name is an individual hand movement designed by yourself

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4LeX TIL dead ants emit a chemical that tells other ants to move the body to a sort of burial ground. If this chemical is sprayed on a live ant, other ants will treat it as a dead ant, regardless of what the live/dead ant does.
Pgje TIL an Iraqi Man moved to Australia and used the Welfare System as Income. Some years later he became successful and wrote a check for more than $18,000 to the Australian Government (Every cent they gave him).
PYaPG TIL that wearing of the Fez hat is illegal in Turkey, having been banned in 1925
y70X TIL Pope Francis used to be a night club bouncer
XY4R TIL New York City rioted for over a week in 1922 over when it was socially acceptable to wear a straw hat, similar incidents led to a man being killed in 1924