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TIL that baby kittens and puppies can’t urinate and defecate on their own

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R7X78 TIL that scabs actually SLOW DOWN the healing process to wounds as the new skin grows underneath them. It's important to be able to keep a band-aid on at most times after a fresh wound is made in order for the new skin to come in and grow in a fresh and wet enviroment.
VBGy0 TIL the Duracell Bunny was first and Energizer took advantage of a trademark lapse to parody Duracell's original commercial that debuted the bunny.
X09AP TIL about the Smooth-Hawley tariff act of 1930 which increased US tariffs (by an average of 20%) on over 20,000 imported goods, while it seemed succesful at first by 1933 US exports had declined by 61% and its GNP by almost 50%
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oBbZA TIL that, in July 2020, marine biologists studying the seafloor in the South Pacific Gyre ("the deadest spot in the ocean") discovered aerobic microorganisms in "quasi-suspended animation." At 101.5 million years old, they are the longest-living life forms ever found.