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TIL that mere hours are sufficient to form fossils aka the Medusa Effect aka flash petrification

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1aMer TIL that there is a blind cave beetle named after Adolf Hitler, Anophthalmus hitleri. Nazi memorabilia collectors willing to pay up to £1200 for a specimen are putting it at risk of extinction.
PYA9g TIL Zephany Nurse is a South African girl who was kidnapped as a baby. 17 years later, she was reunited with her real family when she coincidentally started going to the same school as her younger sister. The girls were inseparable and had a strong resemblance. A DNA test confirmed their relation.
rNAyd TIL the art director for Teen Titans Go, Dan Hipp, has his own manga series called “Gyakushu”
R5gP4 TIL that a tiger went on an 800-mile journey to find a mate, crossed 11 villages and there was a solitary incident with a human, only when the villager came to take a selfie.
loxxK TIL that Chicago is called The Windy City, not because of how windy it is, but because it referred to the city's politicians as being "full of hot air"