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Jul 05, 2020

TIL Because of its massive size, a T-Rex could only run at 12 miles per hour. If it ran any faster, its bones would've shattered.

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Jun 25, 2020

TIL the Japanese Fire-bellied Newts are able to regenerate body parts including the limbs, the tail and spinal cord, parts of the eye (such as the retina and the lens), the brain, the heart and the jaws.

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Jun 18, 2020

TIL Bees can sense the Electric fields of Flowers. Videos show that when the positively charged bee arrives at the negatively charged flower...pollen literally jumps from the flower to the bee. The bee may fly over to the flower but at close quarters, the flower also flies over to the bee.

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Jun 16, 2020

TIL that a toxin in bee venom called melittin may prevent HIV. Melittin can kill HIV by poking holes into the virus's protective envelope. Bee stings may also ease pain caused by rheumatoid arthritis. Scientists found that molecules in bee venom increase your body's level of glucocorticoid, an anti-

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May 30, 2020

TIL that a 99-million-year old fossilized Daddy Longlegs was found with an erection.

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Apr 19, 2020

TIL a UK study found that North American gray squirrels are smarter than UK red squirrels at tasks to get hazelnuts. Both gray & red equally opened a clear flap to get a nut. But in a multi-step task including operating a lever to get a nut, 91% of gray squirrels solved it vs 62% of red squirrels.

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Feb 24, 2020

TIL moths vibrate their genitals to avoid bats. This action produces ultrasound that jams bats’ built-in sonar, rendering the moths temporarily “invisible”.

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Feb 21, 2020

TIL A pod of Killer Whales that desperately needed a young, healthy female had their only young female killed by hemorrhaging in her ear canals as US Navy tested its bombs despite repeated requests by Whale researchers not to do so .Killer Whales are declared Endangered Animals in US

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Jan 21, 2020

TIL in the 1870s, the city of Liège, Belgium hired 37 cats to deliver mail. It was unsuccessful.

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Jan 12, 2020

TIL that farm raised ostriches are attracted to humans and a scientific study found that “70% of the ostriches reliably hit on the humans when they were around,” and they would solicit sex “more than twice as often when the humans were nearby.”

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Dec 22, 2019

TIL It is a popular myth that a komodo dragon's bite causes death because the mouth of a komodo dragon is so filthy that the bitten animal ultimately dies of a bacterial infection. In fact, a komodo dragon's mouth is just as clean as most animals and it instead relies on venom to hunt prey.

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Dec 16, 2019

TIL Pooping can be a life-threatening experience for a Sloth. They take a dump around once a week and have terrible constipation. A single poop can be up to a third of the Sloth's body weight.

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Dec 12, 2019

TIL because of the vastness of the deep ocean, when a male and female anglerfish mate their bodies fuse into one. The male's now useless body parts like eyes and fins wither away. He spends the rest of his life attached to her like a parasite, taking food and providing her with babies.

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Dec 06, 2019

TIL that dung beetles, when placed in a planetarium behave with a sense of direction only under specific constellations. This would indicate that they celestially navigate.

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Oct 30, 2019

TIL that ants have designated paramedics that are assigned to rescue their wounded soldiers, carry them back to their nest and help them heal by gently holding the hurt limb in place with their mandibles and front legs while intensely “licking” the wound for up to 4 minutes.

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Oct 01, 2019

TIL in 2007, Iran arrested 14 squirrels for spying.

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Sep 28, 2019

TIL, caffeinated bees are busier but not more productive.

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Sep 25, 2019

TIL that due to specialization of brain hemispheres, dolphins use the right eye to look at unfamiliar objects and the left eye for familiar targets

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Sep 05, 2019

TIL grasshopper mice are unique in the rodent world because they eat a meat-based diet, including eating other mice, and are immune to scorpion venom - their bodies have evolved to use the toxin as a painkiller. They also howl at the moon, which lends to their nickname "werewolf mouse."

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Aug 29, 2019

TIL that there is a specific bark of a male cheetah that causes females to ovulate.

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