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TIL the U.S. military uses bees to find landmines

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mKOp TIL Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t properly form until the child reaches 3-5 years of age.
Z8oZQ TIL some trees have a sex.
yQRN8 TIL that carbon dating data for human bones can be thrown off by hundreds of years if the deceased ate a lot of seafood, because the carbon in fish could have been generated hundreds of years ago and then recycled among the fish and plants (and other food) before being caught and eaten by a human.
9YQ4Q TIL that there is a village in Africa's Burkina Faso where crocodiles and humans have lived side-by-side in peace for over 600 years
wLQ5E TIL that cats respond positively to human slow blinking and that the slow blink represents a ‘cat smile’ and break from an uninterrupted, threatening, stare