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TIL Russian Cosmonauts carry a gun in space.
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TIL when cats are stalking their prey, they “chatter” their teeth because they are so intensely fixated on their prey that they are envisioning biting on them already. This is called: the “vacuum reaction”
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TIL that hard drugs are detectable in your urine for LESS time than marijuana
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Today I learned that Physarum Polycephalum, also known as slime mold or the blob. Can move without legs, has no eyes or mouth, but can still detect and digest any food it comes across.
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TIL Michael Jackson probably wrote the music for Sonic 3 on Sega (although uncredited)
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TIL that “forlorn hope” (the name of the first wave of attacking soldiers in battle, who take the most casualties) is actually a clumsy mistranslation of the Dutch phrase “verloren hoop,” meaning “lost troop.”