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TIL Fern Gully is a real place in NSW Australia

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Xw0R TIL: Scientists fed peanut butter to jellyfish just to see if “Peanut Butter Jellyfish” could be a thing, and it did.
v191x TIL geese are sometimes used instead of guard dogs. They have excellent eyesight, are very territorial, and can discern unusual people or sounds.
jNwYQ TIL about Hemimastix kukwesjijk which is not a plant, animal, fungus, or protozoa. It constitutes an entirely new Kingdom, a new branch on the tree of life.
xVPe0 TIL there is growing body of scientific research showing that reliance on GPS erodes our ability to make our own mental maps.
wDXo TIL that there is a species of ant that breeds none of it’s own workers, but instead steals eggs from other ant species, forcing them into slavery to work and feed their colony.