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TIL that the clad "Scrotifera" is the scientific classification of mammals with scrotums

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wLYpY TIL that male spiders give female spiders gifts of prey wrapped in silk to increase mating success. Wrapping the gift in silk prevents the female from stealing it without copulating and sometimes conceals that the gift is just random trash.
VyED TIL the youngest Olympic athlete in Rio ‘16 was born in 2002
OrY6 TIL “Now is not the time for making new enemies” were allegedly the death bed words of Voltaire, after being asked by a priest to denounce Satan.
wLpMo TIL the moon is 1/400th the size of the sun but also 1/400th the distance from earth which results in the moon and the sun being the same size in the sky, a coincidence not shared by any other known planet-moon combination
1a5nr TIL that All humans have the ability to see ultraviolet light, but it is passively filtered out by the eye’s lens. Patients who undergo surgery to remove the lens can detect ultraviolet light.