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TIL an Israeli company tried seeding the Moon with waterbears.

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loBka TIL that only female Anglerfish have lures and actively look for food. The males are tiny and pale and spend their entire life finding and fusing to female Anglers, where they begin to degenerate until they are little more than a pair of gonads providing sperm to the female on her command.
OoQ0Y TIL Cats put their butts in your face because they are allowing you to “get to know” them
m15xP Til that oil is the second most abundant liquid on earth after water.
1g5r TIL Led Zeppelin let Ben Affleck use “When the Levee Breaks” in Argo with condition he digitally alter the player’s needle drop to correct spot on the record
6ENQw TIL the Pentagon has twice as many toilet facilities needed for a building of its size because it had to conform with the Commonwealth of Virginia's racial segregation laws during construction.