evidence: As I had mentioned in a previous column, when we were kids, my friend Eddie and I did this experiment and found that nothing happened unless Eddie shook the jar and then the ants would fight to the death. Well, Facebook fact-checkers were all over this post saying that shaking a jar of different species of ants was misleading. Fact checker Marlo Lee who holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Howard University wrote, "If the author of the post was trying to make a metaphorical statement about human behavior by relating it to that of ants, they might have been better to choose a different animal for the illustration." [...] John Longino, a myrmecologist from the University of Utah, had this to say, "… There are thousands of species of red ants and thousands of species of black ants. Some ants don’t fight no matter what. Some ants will hang out in a jar for a while, but if you shake them, they release formic acid, which makes them all go crazy, attacking anything, including nest mates."