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TIL red blood cells don’t have mitochondria or a nucleus

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JgNk TIL All mammals have roughly the same lifespan at 1.5 billion heartbeats. An elephant lives longer than a mouse because it’s heart beats slower.
gr65W TIL the parasitic wasp Habrobracon can cope with over 180 times of a Human’s lethal radiation exposure. While a Cockroach can survive 6 to 15 times the lethal dose for Human’s.
0dAep TIL above Olive Riley, a blogger who posted over 100 videos on Youtube documenting her life through WWI, the Great Depression, and WWII. She was born in 1899 and died in 2008. Her videos are still public today.
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