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TIL There is a vault in the arctic that stores over 860k different varieties of food crop seeds as an insurance policy for the world’s food supply

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Q0DX TIL that 5 men volunteered to stand directly under a nuclear bomb that detonated 18,500 ft above them [Video Inside]
7XWr TIL the first animal to ask an existential question was from a parrot named Alex. He asked what color he was, and learned that it was “grey”
0deoA TIL that moose, elephants, armadillos, kangaroos, and even sloths and camels can swim.
neMkB TIL that some skeletons found of now extinct species of sloth suggest some varieties used to be as large as elephants. The Megatherium being one of them.
mepv TIL Cicadas are the only known creature that can kill bacteria on contact via nothing more than nanostructure