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TIL that horseshoe crabs have blue blood that detects pathogens, and they're being hunted for it to extinction!

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nWd5d TIL dog fox hybrids have been genetically verified. They're known as dogxims.
lDDV TIL while bored during his work with the Manhattan Project Richard Feynman would amuse himself by picking the locks of his colleagues confidential file cabinets and placing prank notes, his colleagues believed a spy had infiltrated the project.
kw45 TIL Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, felt his literature professor at Harvard was giving him unfair grades. To prove it, he turned in a paper by George Orwell and received a B-
aAjy TIL the Rothschilds had such an efficient system of couriers that they knew Napoleon lost at Waterloo a day before everyone else. Nathan Rothschild, in one of the most audacious moves in financial history, immediately bought up the government bond market. He then sold for a 40% profit, a huge sum.
W7dXA TIL that Peter Benchley regret writing "JAWS". He later devoted himself to ocean conservation.