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TIL That the side-blotched lizard uses a ‘rock-paper-scissors’ mating mechanism, with Orange throated males beating blue, blue throated beating yellow throated, and yellow beating orange.

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p8eKp TIL that while colored diamonds get their color from chemical impurities absorbing light- such as yellow diamonds containing nitrogen and blue diamonds containing boron- pink diamonds have no traces of impurities, thus baffling scientists and geologists as to how they have a pink color.
m1Oav TIL The Hubble space telescope required a fix for a faulty primary mirror, shortly after launch! (It's now 30 years old and still doing well!)
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