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TIL Scientists breed goats that produce spider silk

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gMMZX TIL that the invention of Wifi involved a failed experiment by Australian scientists to detect exploding mini black holes the size of an atomic particle.
kxjB TIL Roald Dahl was a decorated WWII pilot, a post-war MI6 agent in the US, co-inventor of an implantable valve to relieve pressure in sufferers of hydrocephalus, and married a movie star.
lNpN TIL lime is poisonous to dogs
R7ZZ6 TIL that slime mold is an organism that is neither, plant, animal or fungi and can be both single celled and form into a multicellular mass. In it's multicelled form, it basically becomes a super computer that can solve complex problems.
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