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TIL kangaroo rats are so adapted to desert life that they can go their whole lives without a single drink of water.

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R5lr6 TIL about nutting stones, unusually shaped rocks with shallow dimples used by primitive people to crack hard shelled nuts like walnuts or hickory nuts.
P1pJ TIL that John Stewart is worth eighty million USD, thirty million more than Bill O'Reilly
PmkV TIL that Windhoek, Namibia has been using Direct Potable Reuse (treated and filtered sewage becomes drinking water) for decades, and is the only city in the world to do so.
lorEK TIL The first woman mathematician recorded by history was Hypatia of Alexandria (AD 350 - 415).
WkxA4 TIL the infamous "Elephant's Foot", representing a mass of radioactive corium that formed at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, will remain radioactive for 100,000 years.