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TIL butterflies remember being caterpillars Studies suggest they retain some memories even after liquefying themselves during metamorphosis.

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awrGL TIL about an engineer named Matt Bowtell - who makes prosthetic limbs for people for free using his 3D printer.
JMPB TIL Buzz Aldrin punched a moon-landing hoax believer in the face.
KYQR9 TIL about Ruisreikäleipä, a Finnish flat rye bread with a hole in the middle. The hole has a functional purpose: the bread is hung from poles suspended just below the kitchen roof. This allows the bread to mature and dry in the warmth of the kitchen.
69LQl TIL a pair of fossilized hadrosaur vertebrae exists with a Tyrannosaurus rex tooth embedded inside, surrounded by healed bone growth. This indicates the animal was attacked by a T. rex and survived.
Lk9k9 TIL: The anatomy of the clitoris was not determined until 1998