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TIL lava scabers exist naturally, not just as a human bred morph

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Y7P6v TIL Antonie van Leeuwenhoek handcrafted his microscopes using secret methods. They had powers of magnification ranging from 50 to 300x and the instrument he made in 1677 was powerful enough to see sperm
wpY TIL The zoo in Toledo, Ohio was created when a baby bear was donated to the city in 1900. The bear turned out to be an adult woodchuck.
xVOwk TIL about Easter Island. They had a highly developed civilization for about 600 years, but neglected the environmental effect of their lifestyle and ended in catastrophe. They could not escape the island anymore, because every single tree had been cut. A tragic story, but a good lesson to us all.
8eljZ TIL that newborn giant pandas are proportionally the smallest baby of any placental mammal, being about 1/800 the mother's weight
5Yl8 TIL that the Muhammad Ali effect (in psychology), named after Muhammad Ali, states that people who are asked to rate their intelligence and moral behavior in comparison to others,will rate themselves as more moral, but not more intelligent than others.