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TIL that animals and plants can be "cosmopolitan", meaning they are found all over the world. For example, rails are a cosmopolitan family of bird.

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N7bnP TIL about Brian, the mentally ill Bonobo who was prescribed Paxil to help with his anxiety but taken off of it a few years later after he started sharing it amongst the other apes
OGP94 TIL That there are more trees in Canada than there are stars in the Milky Way - around 300B trees in Canda vs ~100B stars in the Milky Way
VBBGG TIL that natural gas pipelines existed as far back as 500 BC but natural gas was only commercialised in 1785
M7Nwb TIL there is no real difference between a banana and a plantain except for the intended way of consuming..
p6Pb TIL when an underwater bubble is popped with a soundwave, it produces light. After 70 years of trying, scientists still can’t explain it