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TIL that Queen ants have one of the longest life-spans of any known insect – up to 28 years.

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Meaka TIL: Min horses are used as blind guides. They have a very wide range of vision, with a range of nearly 350 degrees. Horses are the only guide animals capable of independent eye movement and they can track potential danger with each eye. Horses can see clearly in almost total darkness.
W75Y TIL Dementors from the Harry Potter series were inspired by J.K. Rowling’s bouts with clinical depression
pgJA TIL that a man with 140 lbs. testicles was left unhappy with removal surgery after the procedure left him with 1 inch penis
bBJ7 TIL in the US the death penalty is, on average, 10x more expensive to taxpayers than life imprisonment.
78ov7 TIL About CRISPR-Cas9’s New Frontier: Rewriting Genetic Memories and sickle cell disease.