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Today I Learned that 3-toed sloths and 2-toed sloths aren't closely related to each other, and each group evolved the tree-hanging lifestyle independently, an example of convergent evolution.

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xBw7 TIL a third-grade girl was expelled for a year because her grandmother sent a birthday cake, and a knife for cutting the cake, to school. The teacher used the knife to cut the cake, and then reported the girl to the authorities as having a dangerous weapon.
dvx8 TIL chickens who watched a video of another chicken eating from a particular food dish were more likely to later choose to eat out of that same dish themselves
1a4KW TIL that of the about 5400 species of mammals on earth, only female humans have permanent breasts
yQmwe TIL there were only two English words that end in "gry"-- hungry and angry. In 2018, the Oxford English Dictionary added a third-- "hangry" (an irritable state induced by lack of food).