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oRY58 TIL Roly-Poly’s breathe through gills and are actually crustaceans, more related to shrimp and crabs than they are to insects. They also carry their babies in a pouch!
9wx87 TIL blue whales appear larger than their true size because of refraction of light in water.
VMeEQ TIL plants often grow more after being watered with rainwater compared to regular water. Lightning in the atmosphere produces bio-available organic compounds (nitrates and ammonium, found in fertilizers) from the inert Nitrogen gas found in air, which then get dissolved in raindrops