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TIL The peacock mantis shrimp has the hardest punch in the animal kingdom, relative to its small size. In fact, if humans were as strong as these miraculous creatures, a person could throw a baseball into the orbit of the Earth.

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kJVn7 TIL Gila Monster venom contains compounds structurally similar to the active ingredient in Ozempic, and this discovery directly lead to the development of all Semiglutide based medications
pYOXA TIL that Fetty Wap lost his left eye before his first birthday, the result of congenital glaucoma.
4XP4g TIL about Earth’s oldest known natural Nuclear Reactor, located in Oklo, Gabon. It's around two-billion years old, and was thought to have been active for several thousand years. Its average power output was 100 kilowatts, enough to run a few dozen toasters.
9wZXM TIL about Juliana, a dog that was awarded a Blue Cross medal during WWII. She saved her owner’s life by peeing on an incendiary bomb.
AN6dn TIL that because The Flash (2023) was shooting during Covid restrictions instead of shooting scenes in an American neighborhood, they instead built houses from scratch on a plot of land in the UK and then had to tear them down after filming