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TIL in America, if you find a dinosaur in your backyard, that is now your dinosaur.

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wLYwY TIL that a study of Toxoplasma gondii, which is estimated to be infecting around 1,000 people every day in Britain, has found that it makes chimpanzees more attracted to the smell of leopards, their main predators in the wild.
b6gdQ TIL only colleges and universities based in the United States are eligible for a .edu domain name
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Yp46G TIL It is possible to raise bees in the desert, as they will collect pollen from many different desert plants. They also produce different types of desert honey at different times of year.