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TIL: Snails have Teeth - Snails’ Teeth Beats Spider Silk As Nature’s Strongest Material

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788pp TIL that Ocean City, NJ employs a falconer to keep seagulls off the boardwalk.
l79kV TIL in 1054, Chinese records reported a “new star bright enough to be seen in the daytime”. They were actually witnessing the supernova explosion that created the Crab Nebula 6,500 light-years away.
DvXg TIL Termites eat through wood two times faster when listening to rock music
jbRj TIL orangutan means the person of the forests in Malay.
9Yp1M TIL a 10 year old boy in China spent 2 years collecting 160,000 plastic bottles, raising $2,700. He donated all this money, and his own savings of $30, to orphans of AIDS victims.