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TIL that there has only ever been one Black Woman elected to Congress as a Republican, that too as recently as 2015 while only serving until 2019.

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dDr7Q TIL ant corpses release a chemical when they die. A scientist once recreated this chemical and put it on a live ant. Its ant friends kept bringing it to the graveyard no matter how much it struggled to return.
pYeNe TIL bully sticks are just dried bull penises
EgyEd TIL humans ability to digest milk and other dairy products and survive on a vegetable-heavy diet only emerged about 6,000 years ago. Before that, they were meat-eaters.
vP65R TIL that in 1950’s Britain, it was noted that the middle class used overly complex language in an attempt to be more posh. However, the actual upper class themselves preferred the more straightforward language of the working class such as scent instead of perfume.
nQnB TIL last year Kim Jong-un banned sarcasm in North Korea fearing people would only agree with him ‘ironically’.