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kO5X5 TIL the gopher tortoise is a species of turtle native to the southeastern United States. The gopher tortoise is seen as a keystone species because it digs deep burrows that provide shelter for at least 360 other animal species, often preserving their lives during conflagrations.
d8Mjr TIL Camels do not store water in their humps. The humps are actually reservoirs for fatty tissue. Concentrating fat in their humps minimizes insulation throughout the rest of the body, thus allowing camels to survive in such extreme hot regions.
epxD6 TIL if space is infinite, or sufficiently large and uniform, identical instances of the history of Earth's entire Hubble volume may occur every so often, simply by chance. Physicists and Cosmologist Max Tegmark calculated that our nearest so-called doppelgänger is 10^10^115 metres away from us
4aGb TIL Toys R Us has a global anti-union and no-negotiation policy in effect everywhere - except in Sweden
rEGM TIL There Exists An Australian Marsupial That Has 14 hour Marathon Orgy Sex Until Its Fur Falls Out, Goes Blind, Bleeds internally and Drops Dead