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TIL Lobster was a throwaway food in Colonial England.

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5R5D TIL that “Spider Goats” are a thing. Since farming spiders for silk isn’t ideal, scientists spliced silk spider genes into goats. This new goat can then produces silk out of its utter with its milk.
ndyb TIL An average cloud weighs 216 thousand pounds. An average storm cloud weighs 105.8 million pounds.
0BQj TIL that cocaine is an ideal treatment for nosebleeds, being a good local anesthetic while simultaneously lowering bleeding by means of vasoconstriction.
16e98 TIL that the Y chromosome is passed almost unchanged from father to son, which is how scientists were able to trace a vast number of direct male descendants back to Genghis Khan.
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