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TIL Osedax worms use acid to bore into shark and whale bones and teeth once they are shed or in carcasses, and rely on symbiotic bacteria to release nutrients the worms can absorb. The females reproduce continuously. 100s of dwarf males live inside a female's surrounding tube.

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GYlp7 TIL cockroach farms grow billions of hem to be used in China to eat kitchen waste. After six months of their lifespan they are washed and dried to be sold for cattle feed or their essence to be extracted for medicinal purposes (curing oral and peptic ulcers, skin wounds and even stomach cancer)
XD4P TIL Bill W, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, took LSD after being sober for decades and “developed a plan to have LSD distributed at all AA meetings nationwide”
XLxj TIL Robert Samuel a professional “stander” earns up to $US1,000 a week by standing in line for people
9Yk7X TIL Canada Geese can consume up to 4lbs of grass per day, resulting in about 3lbs of fecal matter daily. The geese themselves weigh approximately 12lbs.
ANMA7 TIL that planet Vulcan was a small hypothetical planet proposed in 1859 to exist in an orbit between Mercury and the Sun, this hypothesis has been disproven in 1915 by Einstein's theory of relativity