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TIL a leech can survive on one feeding every five years if it is kept refrigerated.

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oRRKK TIL that to save the bumblebees, a California court ruled bees to be classified as fish because insects aren’t covered by the endangered species act. The request for “bees are fish” was considered in 2019 and recently passed.
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