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TIL Exposure to platinum causes snails to turn into slugs

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Vdyk TIL The first known soup recipe is approximately 6,000 years old and included hippo meat, sparrows, vegetables, lentils, and various types of spices.
Z4Do TIL that a birthday party invitation from 100 AD is the earliest known example of writing in Latin by a woman.
Agl4 TIL in 1983, a small town in Missouri was permanently evacuated when high levels of dioxin were discovered in soil samples. It was discovered that a man hired to oil the dirt roads to keep dust down had used waste from a company making Agent Orange.
l68K TIL sea cucumbers move and hunt in herds.
Z8mKG TIL that in order to stay hydrated, sea snakes drink a thin layer of fresh water that collects on the surface of the ocean, called a "lense", after rain storms and do not drink sea water as previously thought.