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TIL that Dragonflies have six legs, but cannot walk. They instead use their legs to hold prey.

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5Y8Ar TIL that the company John Downer Productions makes ultra realistic animal robots to go out into the wild. The robots are able to mimic how the variant of animal would normally act and most of the time gets accepted into that animals group/tribe.
6KaY TIL according to a lawsuit filed against medical clinics and physicians who performed his colonoscopy, a man claims he had left his phone on ‘record’ and caught staff mocking him the second he went under, making fun of his penis, threatening to fire a gun up his rectum, and more
9GKr TIL that armadillos of the genus Dasypus (the only ones found in the US) give birth to four genetically identical young that split from the same embryo; i.e. they always have identical quadruplets; they are the only known vertebrate animals to exhibit this “polyembryony”
9wkBG TIL you can have a set of identical triplets and fraternal twins (Fischer quintuplets (born 14 September 1963)
YWAP TIL Rubber is a 2010 French film about a tire that comes to life and kills people using its psychic powers. It was a box office failure, earning only $100,370 compared to its $500,000 budget.