The Slave-Maker ant is a species of ants that enslaves other ants!

The whole process is really complex. The slave-maker queen fakes her own death and gets carried to the host colony. She then wakes up, and then kills and impersonates the queen. The fake queen will then start making her own offspring, who eventually take over the nest and enslave the previous inhabitants. The slave ants will unknowingly feed the fake queen and its offspring, not realizing that they are impostors.

What's a Tittle?

The dot above the letter 'i' is called a Tittle. This sweet name perfectly matches the cute dot on letter i! Share this with your friends colleagues so that everyone knows about this sweet little name!

Now you can submit your own FACT on INTERNET HINTS!

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If Facebook were a country, it would be the THIRD LARGEST country in the WORLD!

If Facebook were a country, it would be the THIRD LARGEST country in the world, BIGGER than the U.S. and Indonesia.

In 2009, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook had 200 million users, which (if Facebook was a country) would make it the fifth largest in the world.
That was back then. Now, Facebook's statistics page claims that there are more than 400 million active users (twice as many as last year!). This means that there are more Facebook users than people living in the United States (309 million) or Indonesia (231 million). The only countries with bigger populations than Facebook are China and India.

The Creator of NIKE logo was paid only $35!

The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design.

Nike paid Carolyn Davidson, a young graphic design student, $35 for the now famous Swoosh symbol. The founder of Nike, Phil Knight was teaching accounting at Portland State University when he met Davidson. He hired her to do some design work for his company, Blue Ribbon Sports, Inc.

For a presentation with some potential investors, Knight needed a design for a line of shoes. They were facing a deadline, so Davidson quickly put together some designs. One of them was the "Swoosh".

This is what Knight had to say about the now legendary design: "I don't love it, but it will grow on me."

He paid her $35 for the design at the time, but he also compensated her in the future by giving her stock in the company and a gold "Swoosh" diamond ring.

The Soldier who refused to surrender...

A Japanese soldier refused to surrender to U.S. forces after WWII. Instead, he hid in Guam for 27 years.

Shoichi Yokoi, a Japanese sergeant in World War II, returned to Japan in 1972, 27 years after World War II ended. Two American hunters discovered Yokoi in the jungle in Guam. They turned him over to the police, and he was sent back home. He had been hiding in the jungle rather than surrender to U.S. forces at the end of the war.

Yoichi was living in a cave, eating fish and rats, and made clothes out of tree bark. Like other Japanese troops, he was trained to fight to the death and told that surrendering was shameful. Upon returning to Japan he discovered that he had been declared dead in 1944.

The Japan that he came back to was very different than the one he left. He had never heard of jet planes, television, or the atomic bomb. ''I am ashamed that I have returned alive,'' he said.

Shoichi Yokoi wasn't the only Japanese WWII vet to hide out that long, either. Two years later, a lieutenant named Hiroo Onoda was discovered hiding out in the Philippine jungle.

Source: NY Times