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TIL of the pumpkin toadlet, a tiny frog the size of a Tic Tac that has trouble landing after a jump because their semicircular canals have gotten so small that they're not sensitive enough to be used to detect angular acceleration. They often end up flopping backwards or doing backflips instead.

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