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TIL that when confronted by a rattlesnake, a California ground squirrel will direct blood to it’s tail to heat it up, causing the rattlesnake to back down because it distinguishes prey by sensing infrared radiation.

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9gWB TIL: Typographic Rivers are the gaps in typesetting, which appear to run through a paragraph of text, due to a coincidental alignment of spaces.
YvPW TIL there is a volcano in Arizona that bears the name “Shit Pot Crater,” so named because it resembles a “toilet catastrophe.”
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