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TIL scientists have discovered a species of extremophilic nematode in Mono Lake in California called Auanema sp. It lives in a lake with 500x the arsenic concentration we can handle, 3 times as salty as the ocean, and has an alkaline pH of 10. It has 3 sexes, and carries its young like marsupial.

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k8LW TIL The amount of alcohol that evaporates from whiskey casks during maturation is called the Angels share
WAyX TIL over 8 million horses died in WW1. Of those who survived, most were sent to Belgian butchers, being regarded as unfit for any other purpose.
6E5pY TIL about a shortage of dwarf actors to play the Oompa Loompas in 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory', as the Nazis had killed most of the dwarves during WW2.
9YxpQ TIL about the three border collies trained to run like the wind to bring new life to Chilean forest devastated by wildfires, wearing backpacks releasing native plant seeds
j6yWa TIL that the heavily disputed territory of Trieste was divided in 1954 between Italy and Yugoslavia. The city and surrounding area stayed with Italy while 'Zone B' was divided up between Slovenia (giving it coastline) and Croatia within Yugoslavia itself.