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TIL ants that farm aphids influence the aphids’ genes in a similar way that we do with cows. Aphid-farming ants prefer and select for red/green polymorphism.

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WkKn9 TIL that the US Army field tested the use of camels in the American Southwest before the Civil War
ZBXa TIL that Merlin the Wizard was possibly based on the legend of a real person, Myrddin Wyllt, a bard who went crazy watching the defeat and slaughter of his Celtic King Gwenddoleu and his army, and spent the rest of his life in the forest living among animals as a madman.
XElw6 TIL that anatomically dogs have two arms and two legs - not four legs; the front legs (arms) have wrist joints and are connected to the skeleton by muscle and the back legs have hip joints and knee caps.
BbAL TIL of Theophrastus Phillipus Auroleus Bombastus von Hohenheim, a physician from the 15th century who said “All things are poisonous and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes a thing not poisonous”. He is regarded as the father of toxicology.
kJBj1 TIL That Jacques Cousteau helped in the search for oil off the coast of Abu Dhabi by collecting rock samples.