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TIL that California is the only state to have an image of an extinct animal on its state flag and seal

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LQ5Pv TIL that the Longyou Caves, a mysterious network of man-made caves over 2,000 years old, were never recorded in any historical documents and were only rediscovered by local farmers in 1992.
p8lxN TIL the nematomorph parasite attaches itself to a cricket, but needs an aquatic habitat to survive. To achieve this, the parasite induces the cricket into a water dive, which is a suicidal impulse to drown itself.
W1DL TIL that two of Saturn’s moons, Janus and Epimetheus, only have an orbital altitude difference of 50km. Due to this, one moon will ‘catch up’ to the other every four years, and they will begin a 100 day process in which they exchange orbital positions.
xVk4w TIL that high blood pressure can lead to osteoporosis because you pee excessive calcium when you have high blood pressure
n19B TIL of Kremlin advisor Aleksandr Dugin’s 1997 book “Foundations of Geopolitics”, in which he calls for the annexation of Ukraine by Russia, for the UK to be cut off from Europe, and for the promotion of political chaos and isolationist tendencies in the USA