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TIL Scientists put slime mold onto a model of a map of Tokyo, with food representing urban centers. After a day, it created a network almost identical to Tokyo’s actual rail network. Human designers created that network to be as efficient as possible; slime mold did the same, but without a brain

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69d6l TIL the cookies that Cookie Monster eats are just painted rice cakes. Real cookies would damage the puppet because of the grease.
epyK4 TIL the characters "Perry the Platypus" and "Knuckles the Echidna" do represent the only two families in the monotremata order. Which means Platypus and Echidna are the only two families of egg-laying mammals on Earth.
Mee8B TIL prior to the advent of commercial aviation, "air-line" referred to railroads that used relatively straight and direct routes.
lo9gr TIL Angus McDonagh designed and printed his own fake postage stamps, with images of himself wearing an eye patch, a beret and a Father Christmas beard. He successfully used them to post over 100 letters.
W7Ra9 TIL that in 2020, a Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Rick Morgan pulled over an SUV driven by a five-year-old boy