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TIL that many species of sharks can be rotated in order to subdue them, thanks to a defensive mechanism known as tonic immobility.

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pX1G TIL microbiologist Raul Cano, successfully revived yeast that had been stuck in amber for 25 million years. He then co-founded a brewery that uses the same 45 million-year-old species of yeast to brew beer.
yVa8 TIL that the religious order which worships Vladimir Putin as the reincarnation of Paul consists ONLY of women.
neyLr TIL of Oseola McCarty, a Mississippi washerwoman who has saved $280k by retirement at age 86, donating $150k to establish and endowment for poor African American students in Mississippi
GwQ5 TIL Houston has a program that allows citizens to give tickets to those who abuse handicap parking spaces, after taking a four hour course.
nem7W A new report found the seafood contains an alarming amount of plastic – and in fact, no sea creature is immune. It’s as if the ocean is wreaking its revenge