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TIL Whalebone corsets were not made of bone, but of baleen, a whale's filter plate.

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D1Q5e A lion’s mane will change color in accordance with its nutrition level and overall well-being; a male lion with a darker mane tends to be healthier and have higher testosterone levels. As a result, lionesses find lions with darker manes more attractive.
4XZGo TIL Astronauts have specialised survival knives in case they crash land off course
5YXD9 TIL after a fire destroyed Brazil's National Museum in September, university museum studies students began collecting visitors' photos of the irreplaceable artifacts that were lost so they can re-create the museum's collection virtually.
9WY6 TIL A mantis shrimp (2-5 inches big) was provoked by a researcher, and the animal punched its aquarium wall, shattering the glass and flooding the office. Turns out the mantis shrimp’s punch is so fast, it boils the water around it when delivered.
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