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TIL there is a form of edible wood.

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7rKAp TIL of the New Mexico whiptail lizard, an all-female species that originated from hybridization. It reproduces without males through parthenogenesis and manages to escape extinction because of a constant stock of new hybrids. They even have female to female courtship to stimulate ovulation!
ZjBR TIL the living room set in The Addam’s Family was actually pink.
g7W7 TIL that when Marie Curie’s body was exhumed it was found that her radium levels were below the acceptable limit. She likely got cancer from her early work in the military, not from her pioneering research into radioactivity.
pYGy8 TIL that the CIA spent $20 million to train and modify a cat to be a spy only to have it get run over on its first mission.
EgJR7 TIL dogs can donate blood for other dogs, and have more than 12 different blood types.