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TIL that ants can easily survive being microwaved due to having a large body surface area to volume ratio and an ability to position themselves in between microwaves beams due to their small size.

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KODZE TIL that for 14 years nobody on Sesame Street would believe Big Bird when he would try to tell them about Mr. Snuffleupagus. After an increase in child abuse cases, producers decided to make him "real" so children could see that adults will believe them when they have something important to say.
QJyop TIL why we have two nostrils - different smells are detectable at different air speeds, so one nostril is always more open than the other to give us a wider olfactory range.
6EdYJ TIL there is a charity that uses natural geographic features and strategic protection of land to block huge areas of rainforest from logging, making it extremely cost-effective
nep0r TIL a man called Roger Sperry performed brain experiments on cats and monkeys. He found that if the two brain hemispheres were not connected they would function independently of one another, and even enable the split-brain of the animals to memorize double the information.
Yp95r TIL that five people died searching for a $2 million treasure chest hidden in the Rocky Mountains twelve years ago, and finally found yesterday