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TIL People born with red hair has a much higher chance of developing skin cancer from UV exposure.

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wboP TIL The Corolla Spider uses quartz crystals to set a traps and catch its prey
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N7oa8 TIL the first dinosaur skeleton discovered in the US was in 1858 in Haddonfield, N.J. After excavations were complete the dig was ignored, became a dump, and was lost until 1984 when a local Boy Scout decided his community project to qualify for Eagle Scout would be rediscovering the original site.
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