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May 18, 2020

TIL grad students in the Netherlands have created lab-grown venom glands from 9 species of snake embryos: 1mm long white blobs that produced venom in a petri dish. It paves the way for creating antivenom without milking adult snakes for venom and without injecting into a horse to produce antibodies.

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May 10, 2020

TIL there's a village in India where snakes are family. Cobras roam freely and are worshipped with a place dedicated in every house where they can come to chill, and are also known to frequent schools, with not a single snake-bite case reported.

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Nov 26, 2019

TIL that the cream used to treat anal tears can be used to drastically slow down the speed at which venom spreads through your body after a snake-bite, buying valuable life-saving time to reach a hospital

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Aug 26, 2019

TIL that snakes have forked tongues to be able to smell in three dimensions. By picking up odours from slightly different locations they are able to tell the direction and source of the smell.

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Jun 13, 2019

TIL Snakes can defend themselves by releasing "Musk" from their cloaca. It smells bad enough to make some people vomit, and can't be washed off.

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