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TIL that the Asian tiger snake is the only snake species that is both venomous and poisonous. Not only does it produce toxin for its bite, but it also stores poison it obtains from its toad prey in its skin

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J1wJB TIL Cremated remains are not actually ashes; they are ground up bone fragments
PeJg TIL that the genetic diversity of Cheetahs is so narrow that unrelated individuals can be as genetically similar as human identical twins
epd7n TIL that Norse people occupied and lived in Greenland before the Inuits (those descending from the Thule people of North America). Even so, the Inuits are considered the indigenous people of the island and they renamed all the cities from Danish when Greenland was granted home rule
QJQA9 TIL of Arthur Boycott, the man with the longest overdue library book in history. He checked it out in the 1890s and it wasn’t returned until nearly 120 years later in 2016, by his granddaughter
POyL TIL in 2011, instead of taking steps to alleviate their drought problems, the state of Texas decided to call for 3 days of prayer, after which their drought became much more severe.