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TIL that “Blue Shell” is actually a fan nickname, with it’s official name being “Spiny Shell”

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R7RR7 TIL on a mission to the International Space Station in January 2015, scientists tested the regenerative properties of planarian worms in zero gravity. One specimen actually grew a second head through spontaneous regeneration and when researchers tried amputating it, both heads grew back.
7r7L TIL Raccoons can figure out how to open several complex locks in less than 10 tries, and they can remember solutions to tasks for up to 3 years.
eJMk TIL that during conservation efforts to save the critically endangered toolache wallaby, 10 of the last surviving members of the species were accidentally killed during efforts to capture them for a breeding program. The species is now extinct.
4xQJ TIL Benjamin Franklin once sent classified letters to American revolutionaries detailing how the British were attempting to decrease American morale by gradually suppressing basic liberties, effectively making Franklin one of the first American “whistle-blowers”.
xV1Gg TIL many large fruits are considered “ghosts”, because large animals like the giant sloth that used to disperse them have gone extinct