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TIL slugs evolved from snails, and exposing baby snails to platinum turns them into slugs

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Z8QV4 TIL that Japanese Honeybees have adapted to kill Murder Hornets by vibrating together in a ball around the hornet and using their combined body heat to cook it alive
akk0 TIL an early version of Picasso’s The Weeping Woman was stolen from the National Gallery of Victoria with the ransom demand being an increase in funding to the arts. The painting was later found undamaged in a locker at a Melbourne train station and the theft remains unsolved today.
W0P8 TIL one of the eight rules in the American mafia is that you cannot have facial hair.
yGDV TIL the American Association for cancer research conducted a study using capsaicin, the antioxidant that makes peppers spicy. It was determined that cancer tumors were decreased to one-fifth their size, on average.
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