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TIL Goldfish can differentiate between different people and will “beg” for food from their owners

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pY65N TIL CHEP started as an Australian Government initiative to reuse left over US Army pallets from WW2
x6ajw TIL: If you cut 2 different sponges up, disaggregate them (push them through a sieve), and mix the 2 cell-slurries together - the sponge cells reassociate with their own cells, but not cells of the other species. This is being studied to understand tissue repair and transplant rejection.
ErPP TIL the United States government is largely responsible for America’s obesity, by supporting corn and soy overproduction, making processed foods derived from those products the only ones affordable for poor americans.
J1j7Q TIL Humans are a tropical species. Human evolution has produced bodies that were meant to live in hot and humid conditions. Our species is in its infancy as far as cold weather evolution is concerned, and physiologically speaking, our bodies are not supposed to be able to survive there.
RaPa TIL that Jamie Johnson, the heir to the Johnson and Johnson fortune, made 2 documentaries showing how the 1% live and was sued for it by some of his friends who called him an “idiot” and a “traitor to your class.”