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TIL scientists in 2002 reconstructed and synthesized a visual pigment gene present in the last common ancestor of birds and crocodiles (archosaurs).

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XEQMR TIL that one teaspoon of honey is a lifetime work of 12 bees
Yb9G TIL in 2003 a herd of elephants encircled a camp of antelope hunters in Empangani, South Africa. The 11 elephants surrounded the enclosure keeping the hunters at bay, while the matriarch used her trunk to unhook the gates of the captured antelope, allowing them to run free.
loorN TIL Jon Arbuckle drank a glass of dog semen in a Garfield strip
akYM TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien once started to write sequel to The Lord of the Rings entitled The New Shadow, but stopped only 30 pages in.
XRMP TIL: The smallest parcel of property in NYC is 500 sq in