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TIL that sloths take a shit once a week. This is the only reason they will leave their tree, and when they do, it's pretty much a life or death situation for them as predators can easily catch them off guard while they are on the ground.

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6Ev58 TIL that Darwin's finches, a classic example of evolution, are being rapidly killed due to an infectious parasite that damages their beaks, preventing them from producing mating calls and as a result, reproducing. The larvae also infest the nests and feed on the blood and tissue of the nestlings.
e0P1k TIL Alan Turing, the mathematician who cracked Enigma ending WWII at least two years early and saving ~11M lives, was a gay man. He was later arrested for being a homosexual and sentenced to chemical castration. Turing mysteriously died of cyanide poisoning.
O1QR TIL Rowan Atkinson suffers from a stammer, so he uses over-articulation as a technique to overcome problematic consonants (like ‘B’).
9YY96 B-b-b-buzzz
M70PB TIL: In 2013 a group in California were genetically engineering plants to glow in the dark and hoping to replace streetlights