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TIL: There is a species of moth called the Bagworm moth. They build a cocoons out of sticks and small twigs. These cocoons can sometimes look like small log cabins. After metamorphosis the female of the species spend their whole lives, of a few weeks, in the little home they made.

j6LyX TIL that Redbox was originally named "Tiktok Easyshops" when they were started as a McDonald's marketing project.
bQD7 TIL Alan Parsons (the audio engineer of Dark Side of the Moon) rejected Pink Floyd’s invitation to work as the audio engineer of “Wish You Were Here” and started Alan Parsons Project
j7nn TIL, according to a report in Britain’s BMJ medical journal, nearly 1 percent of young women in a U.S. study who have become pregnant claim to have done so as virgins.
85PV TIL : There are special bins in Mexico City in which people can deposit their dog’s poop for free WI-FI, the container measured the weight of the poop then emitted a set number of minutes of free Wi-Fi for every pound of feces it collected.
5YVJr Characterized by their large green bodies and beak-like teeth, bumphead parrotfish can be found near the coral reefs of the Indo-Pacific. These large corallivores use their mighty teeth to grind up the hard exterior of coral in search of the small creatures living inside. If you've ever visited a beach in these regions, you've probably relaxed on the sandy remnants of this coral-based diet. In other words, that beach is full of crap! National Geographic grantee Mikayla Wujec fills us in in this episode of Today I Learned.