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TIL Coca Cola was actually made to cure Morphine Addiction

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4k07w TIL about Batesian mimicry: a non-poisonous butterfly mimics the bright colors of poisonous ones. Predators avoiding the poisonous colors prey on dark-colored butterflies, favoring the survival of mimics. This increases the frequency of alleles for mimicry in the non-poisonous population.
WajL TIL Charles Darwin collected a Galápagos tortoise during his 1835 visit to the Galápagos Islands as part of his round-the-world survey expedition. It lived 175 years and died of heart failure at the Australia Zoo in 2006.
eDg4 TIL a Buddhist monk who burned himself in front of the Cambodian embassy named Thich Quang Duc, when re-cremated after burning, his heart remained in tact.
16wGD TIL that, at least in Britain, many beers are produced using isinglass (dried fish swim bladders) as a method of clarification and are not strictly vegetarian
4XAm6 TIL: General Motors hired Prostitutes to discredit Ralph Nader