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TIL a queen garden ant can live up to 30 years.

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KYjZG TIL John Young is the only astronaut to walk on the Moon and fly the Space Shuttle. He also flew in the Gemini and Apollo programs, commanded the first Space Shuttle flight, and participated in the Spacelab program. He left NASA after criticizing its safety following the Challenger disaster.
E1D57 TIL There are more public libraries than McDonalds in the U.S.
YGnx TIL Switzerland now has a negative interest rate, meaning that banks lose money if they don’t lend and in some circumstances customers lose money if they don’t borrow.
vPMvK TIL that scientists have been tracking a Laysan albatross bird named Wisdom since 1956. She is still going strong in 2025!
NN4J TIL that ABBA member Anni-Frid Lyngstad was a survivor of Nazi Germany’s Lebensborn program, an attempt to selectively “breed” more children with “racially desirable” traits.