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TIL the pages of Finland's passport make a flipbook of a moose walking

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v1dlr TIL squirrels' brains grow in size during the fall to help them remember where they bury their nuts. Their brains are smaller the rest of the year
e0BBb TIL to verify the hypothesis that some Canadian drivers intentionally run over reptiles, research in 2007 found that 2.7% of drivers intentionally hit reptile decoys masquerading as snakes and turtles. Indeed, several drivers were observed speeding up and positioning their cars to hit the reptiles.
P18bO TIL about Tulare Lake, once the largest fresh water lake west of the Mississippi, covering an area from Fresno to Bakersfield at its maximum size. It steadily shrunk from the mid 1800s onward before eventually vanishing due to water diversion for crops. It occasionally reemerges in flood years.
6E7aw TIL Alligator Snapping Turtles can live over 150 years, and some have been found with musketballs and flint arrowheads in their shells
rNme TIL a much higher percentage of astronauts wear corrective glasses in space, while fewer wear them on earth. The lack of gravity affects the shape of the eye.