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TIL that scientists were monitoring whale stress levels by analyzing their poop and found that their stress plummeted immediately following the 9/11 attacks. Turns out this was due to all ship traffic being halted which quieted the oceans of low frequency noise which whales use to communicate

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4kdPb TIL that glacier mice are are colonies of wandering moss, observed as far apart as Alaska and Uganda. They move at least an inch a day as a herd and in a non-random fashion. Though they reproduce asexual, the conditions for them to form, or the the nature of their movement, has yet to be explained.
M7RdV TIL General Electric dumped toxic "forever" chemicals into the Hudson River and its CEO, Jack Welch, disputed the EPA's findings that these chemicals are toxic.
Abeo TIL that antivenom is actually obtained by using milked venom from said species and injecting it into a sheep where antibodies are made and harvested from its blood
VMvgQ TIL that scientists actually answered the "chicken or the egg" question
6E0lW TIL the chance of being born in a first world or developed country is 17%. 83% of people will be born in places with poor living conditions.