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TIL that bioluminescence is believed to be the most common form of communication on earth.

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Wknj8 TIL there was an occupational condition called "radium jaw"--workers exposed to radium had necrosis of the jaw, bleeding gums and bone tumors in their face. It primarily affected women who worked at radium paint companies.
1gxP TIL that the last woolly mammoths lived at the same time the Egyptians were building the pyramids
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