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TIL that The closest living relative of hippopotamuses are whales

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eoB4 TIL that if you fall into lava you aren’t going to sink in it.
DQJAD TIL red foxes mirroring patterns of domestication. The patterns of skull divergence between urban and rural habitats matched the description of morphological changes that can occur during domestication. Specifically, urban populations of foxes show variation consistent with ‘domestication syndrome’.
rNdJd TIL John Madden, the football coach, did not in fact create the Madden women’s shoes brand
kOeVW TIL Thomas Jefferson wanted the Constitution rewritten every 19 years
LkrN0 TIL the hottest known substance in the universe is actually created on Earth at the Large Hadron Collider. When gold particles are smashed together, for a split second temperatures can reach up to 7.2 trillion degrees Fahrenheit, which is hotter than a supernova.