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TIL some species of ants farm aphids like we do cows (www.mcgill.ca)

Link: www.westcoastseeds.com/…/do-ants-farm-aphids....

TIL: There is a community on Lemmy where people share Weird and Oddly Specific (music) Playlists (lemmy.world)

TIL ants that farm aphids influence the aphids’ genes in a similar way that we do with cows. Aphid-farming ants prefer and select for red/green polymorphism. (www.nature.com)

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TIL about Halal Ribfest (barbecue/food that's permitted by a Muslim diet) and they go on tour. (www.halalribfest.com)

TIL that the judge in the Carroll rape case clarified that Trump did rape Jean Carroll (www.washingtonpost.com)

All the news headlines and verdict said sexual abuse, which was kind of vague, but I just found out today that the judge clarified that this was a matter of legal definition and by the verdict of the trial and the case, trump has been found guilty of penetrative rape.

TIL - J and J knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder and failed to disclose it to regulators or the public. (www.reuters.com)

TIL fermilab had a ferret to find obstructions in their particle accelerator in the 1960s (news.fnal.gov)

TIL Stonehenge has been 'restored' at least 3 times, and may not be in it's original position due to stone removal and replacement. (odysee.com)

Found as one of the top recommended videos on Odyssey.com

TIL the only guy in ZZ Top without a giant beard is named Frank Beard. (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL Boeing, NASA, and United Airlines test sustainable aviation fuel (innovationorigins.com)

TIL - Bulgaria , over the past 35 years, has seen the fastest decline in population of any country in the world — a 28 percent drop (e360.yale.edu)

TIL about Hector the Convector a thunderstorm and cloud system that forms nearly every afternoon from September to March in the Northern Territory of Australia (en.wikipedia.org)

Named by pilots during the Second World War, the recurring position of the thunderstorm made it a navigational beacon for pilots and mariners in the region. A mesoscale phenomenon, Hector is caused primarily by a collision of several sea breeze boundaries across the Tiwi Islands and is known for its consistency and intensity....

Great story about a small Danish town that helped rescue Jews during World War Two (www.bbc.com)

TIL that the only part of the UK that officially speaks English is Northern Ireland. (populationdata.org.uk)

Surprisingly, there is no law declaring English the official language of the UK....

TIL - After World War II, thousands of Nazis fled to South America along so-called ratlines — often with the help of Catholic clergy (www.dw.com)

Study finds SARS-CoV-2-associated sepsis was more common, deadly than previously thought (medicalxpress.com)

The colour of the Sun is white (www.wtamu.edu)

The sun is not yellow or orange as we see in books and movies. It emits all the colours in the visible spectrum (also in other spectrums as well) making it white!

TIL past psilocybin use is strongly associated with working less overtime hours (www.tandfonline.com)

TIL: In the song DARE it's "you've got to press it on you" rather than "you've got depression on you" (genius.com)

TIL Children as young as eight can and have been put on the sex offender registry, which lasts the rest of their lives. (jlc.org)

TIL that in the US, liberal adolescents are much more likely to experience depression than their conservative counterparts. This divergence in depression rates only started recently and is growing (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

TIL: Wikipedia.org has over 6.7 million English articles, and close to 60 million total wiki pages (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL of the Mobile phone throwing competition that originated in Finland (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL In the Hot Coffee lawsuit against McDonalds,punitive damages were given due to McDonalds intentionally overheating coffee to save money on refills (www.poolelg.com)

During the trial it was revealed that McDonald’s knew that heating their coffee to this temperature would be dangerous, but they did it anyways because it would save them money. When you serve coffee that is too hot to drink, it will take much longer for a person to drink their coffee, which means that McDonald’s will not...