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TIL there haven’t been any wild flamingos in Florida for >100 years

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695d8 TIL in all regions of the world some people used to eat soil and many still do that today
K1Z9 TIL that the traditional Japanese dish of Tempura was actually introduced to them by Portuguese missionaries in the 16th Century
nABW TIL a dog named Chaser has the largest tested memory of any non-human animal. She can identify 1,022 toys by their name and retrieve them by name and by category.
8awkK TIL Some spiders disguise themselves as ants by pretending their two front legs are antennae.More than 300 species of spiders are known to mimic the outward appearance of ants, a phenomenon called myrmecomorphy.
b9M8p TIL In 2005 researchers made a groundbreaking discovery of a novel gene that causes cancer when mutated and tried naming the gene Pokemon but were promptly threatened with a lawsuit by Pokemon USA because the company "did not want Pokemon associated with cancer"