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TIL scorpions are incredibly resilient. Scientists have frozen scorpions overnight, left them in the sun the following day, and when thawed, the arthropod walked away unscathed.

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v1AKK TIL Mark Twain wrote an anti-imperial response to Rudyard Kipling's 'The White Man's Burden' entitled 'To the Person Sitting in Darkness'. The essay is considered one of Twain's darkest and most sarcastic works, openly criticizing missionaries, profiteers, and the brutality of colonialism.
YBvd TIL that the lead singer of The Offspring has a Masters in molecular biology, is a certified flight instructor, and a licensed Airline Transport pilot.
bvZa TIL Richard Owen (who created the word Dinosaur) exploited his crippled peer Gideon Mantell, by claiming ownership and renaming his discoveries. After Mantels suicide, Owen wrote his obituary calling Mantell a mediocre Scientist. He then had Mantells spine removed, pickled, and stored.
WkxQ4 TIL "flushable" wipes cause major clogs in sewers and should not be flushed down the toilet
PYyDE TIL that when David Attenborough's series "Blue Planet II" aired in 2017, so many Chinese fans downloaded the programme on the country’s online Tencent Video channel that the internet in China temporarily slowed down