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TIL Butterflies feed on Dead Animals, Garbage & Blood To Survive.

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X0Mrr TIL Manatees congregate in the warm springs around Florida and also near power plants. Swimming with a manatee in winter is now officially on my bucket list.
9wKor TIL about Cacareco, the rhinoceros who won São Paulo’s 1958 municipal election
jNRlE TIL that the US Navy used to forbid "obscene" tattoos, which led to a boom in tattoos of nude women among men who didn't want to serve. If they joined the navy later, they had to have a tattoo artist "dress" the woman.
ZBwG TIL Animal Planet made a fake documentary about the existence of mermaids… twice!
eWZJ TIL the mechanism behind night vision isn’t the dilation of our pupils, it’s actually a pigment known as Rhodopsin. It gets destroyed by light and takes the eye 45 minutes to replenish.