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Jul 07, 2020

TIL The legal battles over the "Monkey Selfie" ruined the photographers life to the point of making him drop photography to find work as a dog walker.

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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 27, 2020

TIL that a new microbe called a hemimastigote was found in Nova Scotia. The Hemimastix kukwesjijk is not a plant, animal, fungus, or protozoa — it constitutes an entirely new kingdom.

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Feb 16, 2020

TIL researchers found a mother dolphin who adopted a young melon-headed whale; the dolphin mother nursed the whale who often pushed his "adoptive sister" away from the mother. The whale took on bottlenose behaviors such as surfing, jumping, & socializing with other young males.

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Jan 06, 2020

TIL that elephants have a prehensile penis. It can be controlled like their trunks, and is used to scratch the belly, swat flies, balancing and gripping objects.

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Dec 25, 2019

TIL Some reindeer really do have red noses like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. The color is due to an extremely dense array of blood vessels, packed into the nose in order to supply blood and regulate body temperature in extreme environments.

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Nov 10, 2019

TIL 80's pop group Spandau Ballet got their name after seeing it written on a nightclub toilet. Spandau Ballet actually refers to prisoner hangings at Spandau Prison and their twitching and jumping at the end of the rope.

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Aug 26, 2019

TIL Sperm whales are the loudest animal on the planet, sperm whales uses echolocation and vocalization as loud as 236 decibels

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Aug 13, 2019

TIL An elephant's penis is not only 6 feet long, but prehensile. A male elephant can use his penis to swat flies, scratch his belly, to balance like a third leg, and even to grasp onto things. It even does all the work during intercourse.

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Jun 25, 2019

TIL of Dylan McWilliams, a 20 year old man who was bitten by a shark, attacked by a bear, and bitten by a rattlesnake - the odds of which are 893 quadrillion to one.

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Apr 27, 2019

TIL squirrels were originally placed in US cities as a way to reconnect city dwellers with nature

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Apr 19, 2019

TIL, that while they may look silly and harmless, platypuses can be dangerous — at least certain ones. The males come equipped with sharp stingers on the heels of their rear feet that can add some extra pain to a kick.

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Apr 08, 2019

TIL that the clicking noise sperm whales use to communicate is so loud that it can be heard by other whales thousands of miles away and can make a human body intensely vibrate to the point of death.

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