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TIL of a little worm that helps repair and defend stony coral: Eunice norvegica!

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l771V TIL the Torrent duck lives on fast-flowing mountain rivers and whitewater rapids. The ducks nest in rocky coves next to the waterfalls, and the, very buoyant, ducklings quickly figure out to avoid flowing downstream by resting in the eddies in front of boulders.
79lx TIL 35 GBs of Titanfall’s total file size of 49 GBs is uncompressed audio because the engineers thought the minimum specification CPU couldn’t handle decompressing the audio.
5B5r TIL an episode of ‘Peppa Pig’ had to be banned in Australia because it taught children that spiders aren’t that scary. It was considered too dangerous to teach Australian kids that spiders are not to be feared.
gMYQ7 TIL Mosquitoes love type O blood for no good reason. -- protect yourself with a goid insect repellent!
rLvd TIL of Unit 731, a covert Japanese research group that carried out human experimentation during WWII to study chemical and biological warfare. The are considered to be responsible for some of the worst war crimes in history for the tens of thousand who died during the experiments.