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TIL Nematodes are the most abundant animal on the planet and it’s not even close. They outnumber other animals so much that 4 out of 5 animals on the planet are nematods

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KO9v4 TIL that dogs evolved the specific muscles that give them the ability to raise their inner eyebrows more than 33,000 years ago; as they became domesticated. It's an evolutionary trick used to manipulate humans.
jN8ZN TIL group of doctors in the US were developing a technique to buy time in treating lethal wounds by inducing the person into a state of hibernation. The procedure included replacing part of the patients blood with chilled saline solution.
dXrZ TIL slugs evolved from snails, and exposing baby snails to platinum turns them into slugs
p8l18 TIL Unknown author Janet Frame was scheduled for a frontal lobotomy when it was announced that she had won a national literary prize. The procedure was cancelled.
JYRK8 TIL Dolly Parton's father never learned to read, so 22 years ago she started a program to mail free books to young children. That program now sends out over 1.1 million books per month and is closing in on 100 million books total