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TIL Spotted salamander is the only known example of a 'photosynthetic' vertebrate.

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KEe4 TIL the musician Moby is the great-great-great-grandnephew of Herman Melville, the author of Moby Dick
JYJ5m TIL that the chunks of ice that break off of icebergs are officially called "bergy bits"
KO5yJ TIL Ed Sheeran granted a dying fans wish, which was to hear him sing, by singing to her minutes before she died
KYNy9 TIL In 2019 a man in the United States had a bone marrow transplant for leukemia and four years later his semen was the same as the donor. So, if he had children, they wouldn't have his DNA....he is now considered a chimera.
R7O7Q TIL The moon was created in a huge planetary collision 4.5 billion years ago. It was initially 22,000 km away, and an Earth day was 5 hours long. Due to tidal action, the moon has gradually moved away to 400,000 km, and slowed the Earth's spin to a 24 hour day.