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TIL That COVID-19 is the less of our problems
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TIL that bears maintain muscle mass during hibernation by recycling urea - the nitrogenous waste normally removed by urination
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TIL Quebec engineering students invented a giant vacuum to clean up microplastics from beaches. At about 3 gallons/minute, it sucks sand into a tank which then separates particles by weight, so plastic can be filtered out.
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TIL that the Farallon Islands, off the coast of San Francisco, California, has the highest rodent density of any island in the world, with over a thousand mice per acre. Visitors to the islands can, at times, see the ground moving when the mice are burrowing their underground tunnels.
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TIL trees have eyes on their southern side.
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TIL that the world’s biggest and most advanced radio telescope will be built by 2024. It can scan the sky 10,000 times faster and with 50 times the sensitivity of any other telescope, it will be able to see 10 times further into the universe and detect signals that are 10 times older