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TIL-Dogs can smell various types of cancers in humans to include melanoma, lung, ovarian, and more

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QN5r9 Today I learned that bees can recognize human faces. Their brains are tiny but they use something similar to how we process patterns, so they can actually remember and pick out a face they’ve seen before.
awZ5o TIL that Velvet Worms are suggested to locate their prey through smell or air motion. Once located, the Velvet Worm reveals two limbs which act as glue turrets that shoot a slime-rich jet and immobilizes the prey long enough for the Velvet Worm to inject enzymes and begin eating
nedpY TIL: In 2009 a Kansas City car dealership offered a voucher for a free AK-47 with every truck purchase.
p8J0Z TIL that the oysters in Chesapeake Bay used to be able to filter the entire volume of water in 3 days. This process now takes nearly a year.
7rQdx TIL the photosynthesizing Green Sea Slug is considered part animal and part plant.