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TIL a millipede species that actually has 1000+ legs was first described in 2021, living 50 - 200 ft (15 - 60 m) underground in Western Australia

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9wWaD TIL about ternary plots. You can visualise 3 quantities on a 2d triangular graph if they add up to a constant (eg. soil components or colour composition). One graph is “x+y+z=1” which makes a triangle on positive axes, with the regular 3d gridlines intersecting to form triangular ones in the graph.
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