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TIL This Alkaline African Lake Turns Animals into Stone

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kJPPe TIL that there's a mind-altering parasite that live inside cats and can infect humans through their feces that make you more entrepreneurial and prone to taking risks. And at least a third of the world population is infected.
OoE7e TIL that roots of a rubber tree species in India known as The Ficus Elastica are so strong that sometimes they join each other and create hanging bridges for locals to pass
j6KyQ TIL that Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" was not intended to be released as a single. They were later convinced to do so by Michael Jackson who had attended a Queen concert in Los Angeles and suggested it to Freddie Mercury backstage.
G8B7 TIL that specially destructive hurricanes have their names retired from the hurricane name list
7rRgX TIL that if Jupiter gained any additional mass, its size would not change. The planet would become more dense, and it would start pulling in on itself. Astronomers estimate that Jupiter could end up with four times its current mass and still remain about the same size.