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TIL that butterflies taste their food through their feet

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XEoPE TIL: One of the things that initiated the downfall of Harvard educated money launderer Franklin Jurado was his neighbor in Luxembourg filing a noise complaint against him, because Jurado had a money-counting machine running all night
X0obE TIL hurricanes have never crossed the equator. Coriolis forces at the equator are 0, and for a hurricane to be formed there must be a spiraling wind pattern. The stronger the force from the Coriolis effect, the faster the wind spins and picks up additional energy, increasing the hurricane's strength
mxeNE Today I learned that there once lived a reptile with a neck three times the size of it's body...
ven8 TIL that a Minnesota action park lets you drive surplus military tanks and other armored vehicles around an old limestone quarry and smash junk cars and drive through trailer houses.
e0vMk TIL the Bobtail squid, a nocturnal animal, has a light organ on its underside that contains light emitting bacteria that help the squid camouflage its silhouette that would otherwise be visible to predators swimming below during a moonlit or starlit night.