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TIL primates are the only animals that get a rash from poison ivy.

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a89kZ TIL Fairy Shrimp are a species that lives in ephemeral pools of rainwater, and completes its lifecycle by laying eggs by the time those pools dry up. Its eggs then wait until the next time that pool fills, even years or decades, and the cycle repeats
loVYa TIL, a Canadian sports executive named Jack Hamilton identified 136 different types of wood in a guessing competition?
8eREV TIL the mother of Australian spider species Diaea ergandros allows her babies to suckle blood from her leg joints until she has weakened and (usually) dies. This prevents early cannibalism between the spiderlings, thus resulting in more of the clutch surviving.
p8y8A TIL Americans spend on average $143 on Valentine's Day according to the National Retail Federation (NRF)
yQkVl TIL that frogs use their eyeballs to swallow. Frogs eat their prey whole and their eyeballs actually sink down into their mouth and push the food down into their throat.