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TIL: Goldfish can produce alcohol instead of lactic acid in low oxygen environments

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awZ5o TIL that Velvet Worms are suggested to locate their prey through smell or air motion. Once located, the Velvet Worm reveals two limbs which act as glue turrets that shoot a slime-rich jet and immobilizes the prey long enough for the Velvet Worm to inject enzymes and begin eating
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ADbmd TIL Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first African American person elected to the U.S. Senate. He served from February 1870 to March 1871.