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TIL snails and slugs shoot arrow-like "love darts" during mating, often impaling each other.

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JYdKV TIL A fisherman in Philippine found a perl weighing 34kg and estimated around $100 million. Not knowing it's value, the pearl was kept under his bed for 10 years as a good luck charm.
wo68Y TIL that the total mass of the asteroid belt is significantly less than Pluto's
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5aD8 TIL that Vatican’s chief astronomer, Fr. George Coyne said, “Intelligent design isn’t science even though it pretends to be. If you want to teach it in schools, intelligent design should be taught when religion or cultural history is taught, not science.”
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