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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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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 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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Oct 14, 2019

TIL that researchers found fossils of a "Mega Penguin" that stood over 6ft tall and weighed in at over 250lbs.

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Sep 13, 2019

TIL A penguin species that lived around 37m years ago was nearly 7 foot tall

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May 05, 2019

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

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May 04, 2019

TIL Cone snail venom contains weaponized insulin. The insulin forms part of a poison mixture evocatively known as “nirvana cabal”. It allows the snail to disable entire schools of swimming fish by sending them into “hypoglycaemic shock”, a condition brought on by plummeting blood sugar levels.

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