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TIL Scientists are digging up Adélie penguin guano(poop) to study millennia of Antarctica’s history.

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ARXn TIL: 2,000 mice were parachuted into Guam to kill snake invaders. The mice were dead and pumped full of acetaminophen which killed the snakes.
wL098 TIL about Julia Pastrana, a Mexican woman who was toured around the world as "the bear woman". When she died in childbirth in 1860 her husband had her embalmed and continued touring. Her remains ended up in the basement of the University of Oslo. In 2013 she was finally laid to rest in Mexico.
XEPPQ TIL Fissidens adianthoides, the maidenhair pocketmoss, was so named by Anglo-Saxons because of its resemblance to pubic hair.
nWBVG TIL that stadium perimeter advertising can be changed virtually on television so that different advertising is shown in each country
AmRl TIL One researcher estimates that with current technology it would take 10,000 automated microscopes thirty years to map the connections between every neuron in a human brain, and 100 million terabytes of disk space to store the data.