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TIL that sloths are so slow that algae grows naturally on their fur, helping them camouflage in trees.

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wLaBo TIL Porsche Makes a $2,100 Hookah called the, "2.1 Shisha."
NXO51 TIL There's a beer brand named Fucking Hell, named after the town of Fucking, Austria.
Ogje TIL that plants can recognize their siblings and give them preferential treatment, competing less for valuable resources like root space than when surrounded by plants that are strangers.
KYXDR TIL sound travels at 343 m/s in air, 1,481 m/s in water (almost 4.3 times as fast) and at 5,120 m/s in iron (almost 15 times as fast) and in diamond sound travels at 12,000 metres per second (39,000 ft/s),[2]— about 35 times its speed in air because of how exceptionally stiff diamond is.
VM750 TIL that since psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) is a known molecule, it cannot be patented. BUT the way it’s made and used can be. Already organizations and companies are applying for and getting patents for their synthesis process.