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TIL that Russian scientists were able to revive an arctic flower, extinct for 32,000 years, from a seed that’s been borrowed by an ice age squirrel, buried in Siberian permafrost.

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R7b84 TIL a shark helped another shark give birth at an Auckland, New Zealand aquarium in 2009. The first shark bit the abdomen of the second, freeing the pups inside. One aquarium staff member said "It had to bite a certain part to let them out and do it without killing the babies or her."
WP6o TIL that the USS Acadia was the first US Navy ship to house a wartime mixed sex crew and was unofficially nicknamed ‘The Love Boat’ after 10% of all women on board became pregnant during deployment
epKgk TIL Robert Richards of the DuPont family abused his 3 year old daughter and after being sentenced to 8 years in prison, he was released immediately as the judge claimed that the "defendant will not fare well" in prison
XPpR TIL that a special space suit has been created so that, one day, people will be able to have sex in space.
LQ56d TIL that Cape Disappointment was so named, by John Meares in 1788, who was searching for the mouth of the Columbia River as charted on Spanish maps. He had found the river but mistakenly thought the mouth was a bay, that the Spanish maps were wrong, and called it Deception Bay.