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TIL The US has as many veterans as Australia has people
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TIL of a colony of ants with no queen, no males and no offspring, comprised entirely of non-reproductive females, that live in a disused nuclear bunker in Poland. The colony is supplemented by ants falling through holes in the ventilation which cannot escape.
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TIL In 1989, Russian psychic E. Frenkel was run over by a train while attempting to stop it with his psychic-biological power, after previously ‘successfully’ stopping a car and streetcar.
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TIL when Steve Jobs was dying and in need of a liver transplant from someone with the same, rare blood type, Tim Cook got his blood tested, found out he was a match and offered part of his liver. Steve refused.
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TIL of Blue Peacock, a 10 kiloton nuclear landmine designed to be installed in the north german plane. The area was too cold for the mine’s electronics to reliably function, so it was proposed to be heated by chickens.
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TIL that in 1989 after being threatened by the Crips gang a US Army Ranger called in 12 other Rangers to help him and the result was a 30 minute gun battle with hundreds of rounds fired.