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TIL that mammary glands are modified/based off sweat glands

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xWlo TIL the population of Kabul, Afghanistan has grown from 500,000 in 2001 to about 4 million today after the elimination of the Taliban regime.
9LMB TIL it only took 70 years for the lizards in parts of the USA to adapt to fire ants – they now have longer legs and new behaviors that aid them in escaping from the danger
8kEb TIL In 1945, a B-25 bomber pilot crashed into the Empire State Building’s elevator shaft, snapping the cable. By the time the carriage reached the bottom, a thousand feet of cable had piled up beneath it acting like a spring, which allowed the lone occupant in the car to escape injured but alive.
JYed8 TIL that one of the people convicted during the (thoroughly debunked) Satanic Panic of the 80s, which accused daycare workers of abusing children for Satanic purposes, is still in prison
8apyP TIL that the water in Lake Natron, Tanzania, has an extremely high soda and salt content, so high that it would cause the creatures crashing into it to calcify, perfectly preserved, like hard rock as they dry.