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TIL that cars, computers and printers are pampered, decorated and given some rest on the Hindu “Machine Worshiping Day”

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Br55W TIL when Sophie Rutschmann of the University of Strasbourg discovered a mutated gene that causes an adult fruit fly to die within two days after it is infected with certain bacteria, she named the gene "Kenny" in honor of the South Park character, who dies in almost every early episode.
7O9L TIL that because spiders are actually quite resistant to radiation whilst their prey species aren’t, the spider numbers around Chernobyl have exploded, as the spiders can catch the now-weakened prey insects more easily, whilst being resistant to the radioisotopes present in their food
VM9pm TIL about the Darwin's frog. The males of this small Chilean frog swallow the embryos to finish the tadpoles development inside their vocal sac. The "pregnant dad" does not eat for around six weeks until the froglets move to the mouth and get out
nv7 TIL that “Acute Lead Poisoning” is medical slang for gunshot wound.
oxXo TIL Some insect wings have developed textures which physically shred bacteria to pieces