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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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Feb 11, 2020

TIL of Kelly, a dolphin whose trainers gave her fish for bringing them litter/dead gulls to clean her pool. She started hiding fish under a rock in her pool, then used fish to lure gulls which she brought to her trainers to get more fish. She taught her calf the strategy, who taught more calves.

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Dec 26, 2019

TIL In 2009, two scientists from the University of Oxford spent three years, and £300K of taxpayer dollars, to determine if ducks liked water. They discovered that they do, in fact, like water.

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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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Sep 28, 2019

TIL, caffeinated bees are busier but not more productive.

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Jul 01, 2019

TIL Bonobos form all-female coalitions to target violent males as a counterstrategy against harassment.

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May 05, 2019

TIL cows have best friends, and get stressed when separated.

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