{"id":3595,"date":"2006-03-09T18:03:44","date_gmt":"2006-03-10T00:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2006\/03\/09\/little-known-fire-ant-facts\/"},"modified":"2022-01-28T16:20:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T22:20:44","slug":"little-known-fire-ant-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2006\/03\/09\/little-known-fire-ant-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Little known Fire Ant facts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are some little known facts about nature’s perfect creation.<\/p>\n

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Ten Top Trivia Tips about Fire Ants!<\/a><\/h2>\n
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  1. The first domain name ever registered was Fire Ants.com.<\/li>\n
  2. All of the roles in Shakespeare’s plays – including the female roles – were originally played by Fire Ants!<\/li>\n
  3. Fire Ants are the largest of Saturn’s moons.<\/li>\n
  4. In Chinese, the sound ‘Fire Ants’ means ‘bite the wax tadpole’.<\/li>\n
  5. US gold coins used to say ‘In Fire Ants we trust’!<\/li>\n
  6. Louisa May Alcott, author of ‘Little Fire Ants’, hated Fire Ants and only wrote the book at her publisher’s request.<\/li>\n
  7. Fire Ants were originally called Cheerioats.<\/li>\n
  8. The opposite sides of Fire Ants always add up to seven.<\/li>\n
  9. In the 1600s, tobacco was frequently prescribed to treat headaches, bad breath and Fire Ants.<\/li>\n
  10. Fire Ants are the world’s smallest jugglers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    I am interested in – do tell me about<\/form><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

    Thus endeth the biology lesson.<\/p>\n\n\n

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