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d8dQr TIL that porcupines sometimes fall out of trees and injure themselves on their own quills. As a result, they have evolved to produce a topical antibiotic on their quills to protect against infection from self-wounds.
VDeG TIL that the destruction under Genghis Khan may have scrubbed as much as 700 million tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere by allowing forests to regrow on previously populated and cultivated land.
gkgy TIL scientists have found the oldest organism known, a 100,000-year-old underwater giant nine miles across and weighing 6600 tons, floating in the Mediterranean Sea. This organism is a large patch of asexually-reproducing seagrass.
yQ9NX TIL that by transmitting diseases, mosquitoes cause the deaths of more people than any other animal taxon: over 700,000 each year. It has been claimed that almost half of the people who have ever lived have died of mosquito-vectored disease.
b69OE TIL that Amazon received $761 Billion in returned merchandise - more than the US National Defense Spending in 2021 of $741 Billion