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TIL: A recent study of dinosaur eggshells supports the idea that dinosaurs may have been warm blooded

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ZwNR TIL the density of the fur of an otter is incredible 50.000 hairs per square centimeter
R7W46 TIL a near-mint copy of Action Comics No.1 dating from 1938 (the first comic book to feature Superman) now sells for $3.2 million
xVRd5 TIL Cats domesticated themselves. They existed unchanged until the Middle Ages; and even now are genetically extremely close to their ancestors.
GAg6G TIL about Osteo-Odonto-Keratoprosthesis (OOKP) or Tooth-in-Eye Surgery. Pioneered in the 1960s, where surgeons would put a tooth in a blind person's eye and it can restore sight. It still happens to this day
pN8O TIL of Hero Rats: African giant pouched rats can be trained to sniff out both mines and tuberculosis. They are too light to set off mines and can perform a day’s worth of human TB scanning in seven minutes.