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TIL Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is being eaten alive by millions of venomous sea stars known as crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS). Scientist have developed a new robot to hunt and kill these sea stars—a murderous, autonomous underwater vehicle called RangerBot. It kills with a single shot of bile

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DDZj TIL One man single handedly converted a washed out land into a 1,360 acre forest. The forest is now home to tigers & rhinoceros too
m1pNO TIL that following Michael Jackson's death, his sister discovered two hard disks at her brother's home that contained more than 100 unreleased songs, many of which were unregistered. In 2010, Sony signed a deal with Jackson's estate to release 10 posthumous albums, but only 3 were ever released
ROGQ TIL that the recurrent laryngeal nerve in Giraffes is often cited as evidence of evolution, as opposed to the “intelligent design” from God. The lengthy 15 foot nerve takes an inefficient, circuitous route; It exits the brain, goes down and around the heart, then back up to the Giraffe’s voicebox.
7rXN7 TIL: The residents of the Spanish village Villar de Corneja near Avila, where the average age is 75, toast the New Year 12 hours before the rest of their countrymen in a collective decision to get to bed at a decent hour.
GYkD4 TIL that dozens of women sent Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber) provocative letters. He fell in love with a fourth-grade teacher, who he forged a "deep connection" with. Music he composed was played at her funeral, and he called her his "Lady Love".