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TIL a caterpillar turns almost entirely into liquid before rebuilding itself as a butterfly.

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RYdl TIL in 2011, Firefighters in Tennessee let a house burn down because the homeowners didn’t pay a “$75 fire subscription fee”.
avxy TIL that eating meat, in a way, is responsible for us humans having a big brain, and that its hypothesized that if gorillas ate meat too, that after many years, they could be as advanced as we were in more primitive times.
Wk7MX What can liquefy its limbs, throw up its own stomach and still live? Echinoderms, a group of sea creatures that can regenerate their own body parts! In this episode of Today I Learned, National Geographic Explorer Paul Bump tells you all about echinoderm’s incredible capacity for regeneration.