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TIL scientists created cyborg cockroaches. They put wires the cockroaches and steer them by remote control.

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b9GvE TIL That around 1000 years after the great pyramids were built, most mammoth populations had died out. However, in Wrangel Island in Russia, there were around 500-1000 mammoths still alive!
bZg7 TIL that tobacco companies pay for most, if not all, of the anti-tobacco commercials you see.
E1xaX TIL alligators will allow themselves to be frozen in place in a pond to survive freezing temperatures. They seem to know instinctively just when the water will freeze and stick their noses out of the water, allowing the water to freeze around them.
pYw6G TIL that your nasal passage doesn't go up into your head, but it goes horizontal into your face. They've been lying about "sticking things up your nose"
a88E0 TIL when female manta rays are ready to mate they release pheromones that attract males. This leads to a "manta train" which is when multiple male mantas follow behind a female in hopes of mating with them. This can last for weeks until the final male mantas remain.