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TIL the existence of the texas horned lizard, a lizard that throws blood stream from its eyes to defend itself.

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16JD4 TIL Men and women have different hearts and sex mismatch of transplants leads to higher death rates. Although males' bodies are more likely to reject female hearts, both sexes show 10% increased mortality when receiving a transplanted heart from someone of the opposite sex.
omLA TIL in 2012 a 14 year old North Korean schoolgirl drowned in a flood trying to save portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.
GbZg TIL that astronaut Sunita Williams was the first person to run a marathon in space, finishing in 4 hours and 24 minutes on a treadmill aboard the International Space Station.
Me5R7 TIL that in 2017 to AI chatbots created their own language to negotiate with each other
Z8ZRQ TIL Charles Babbage "the father of the computer" also invented the pilot , the pointy thing on the front of older trains, to remove cows from the track.