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TIL That the Venus Flytrap is only native to one area of the world. That area; North and South Carolina.

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ANJX4 TIL that platypuses sweat milk. This is because it doesn't have teats. Milk appears as sweat on a platypus, but it's an aquatic mammal so it doesn't actually sweat at all.
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