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Jul 14, 2020

TIL of Felis nigripes: the African Black-footed Cat, aka "the deadliest cat on earth", weighing in at under 5 lbs. It kills 10 - 14 rodents or birds per night to satisfy its accelerated metabolism. The Black-footed Cat has a kill rate of 60%, whereas a lion's kill rate is about 25%.

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May 31, 2020

TIL There’s a newly discovered Pygmy Seahorse Species called Hippocampus Nalu—nalu referring to “here it is” since it was known to locals prior to its scientific discovery

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May 27, 2020

TIL Cat mummies were so plentiful in Egypt that, in the 1800s, an English company bought a load of 180,000, pulverized them and spread them on farm fields as fertilizer. Also so many baboons and ibises were mummified for the trade it likely drove them to extinction in Egypt.

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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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Nov 30, 2019

TIL The sunfish can grow as big as a pickup truck and can carry up to 40 kinds of parasites. They let cleaner fish feast on the parasites. But some of the toughest parasites need to be removed by seagulls. The seagulls surgically cut into the fish's flesh to eat the most stubborn of parasites.

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