Post * GYrxE — Curious Curator

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TIL that pigs are cannibalistic towards piglets, largely due to hormonal fluctuations among gilts.

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waP8 TIL that there is a plant called Acacia phlebophylla which only grows in one place in the world, Mount Buffalo in Australia. It also happens to be one of the purest natural sources of the psychadelic drug DMT.

ZmLQ TIL North Koreans once attended a UN meeting with AK-47s underneath their jackets. Rather than confront them about it, American officers turned up the temperature in the room to make them sweat under their heavy clothes.

e0aBL TIL that without the Moon, life would have evolved differently on Earth, and the days would be only around 6 hours long.

BKZK TIL that scientists have genetically altered chickens to express DNA that their dinosaur ancestors once possessed. Eventually, they grew teeth.

0db6L TIL that earthworms are not native to North America. Glaciers from the Pleistocene ice age wiped out most native earthworms over 10,000 years ago. New earthworms began entering North America as early as the 1600s, with the first European settlers.