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TIL that 80% of the population of the Australian mining town of Coober Pedy live underground

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e0pkD TIL that after Taylor Swift began following a blog written by a mom whose young son died of cancer, she wrote and released a song about the boy that hit #1 on the charts and Taylor donated 100% of proceeds to cancer charities
N7Zl6 TIL Adidas refuses business partnerships with any organization that has ties to Scientology; including a contract clause for existing partnerships that states, “any organization or association which represents the principles of L. Ron Hubbard will be void."
BP5e TIL the most decorated American WWI veteran from Texas was an undocumented Mexican immigrant named Marcelino Serna. He was also the first Hispanic to be awarded the Distinguished Service Cross
9YwAr It happens to everyone. You might be walking back from grabbing a drink at your favourite neighbourhood watering hole, strolling through a dense forest, or even merely getting up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom when you hear that squishy sound. An ant, a cockroach, a beetle, a centipede, or whatever it used to be, is stuck to the bottom of your foot. Did the bug feel pain when it exploded? Did it feel fear? Did it even have time to be scared? If it had time, would it have done something or said something to any of its bug buddies?
D1aXV TIL ants will refuse “medical” help from their colony if they know they are mortally wounded. Rather than waste the colony’s resources and energy on futile rehabilitation, the wounded ant flails its legs forcing help to abandon them.