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TIL that "Pumpkin Toadlets" - two Brazilian species of tiny frogs have lost the ability to hear their own mating calls.

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oBkx7 TIL three college basketball players who appeared in Hoosiers served a three game suspension after the NCAA ruled they had been paid for playing basketball
wL9dM TIL In 1997, an American co., RiceTec obtained a patent for a strain of rice never historically grown in America — “Basmati”. They achieved this by crossbreeding India’s native plant with a US long rice variety & then claimed exclusive rights over any basmati hybrid grown in the western hemisphere.
VJwk TIL Pope Francis has a master’s degree in Chemistry
1aAmd TIL Farmers need 214 liters of water to grow 1 kg of tomatoes. The Dutch use only 4 liters and are the 2nd largest exporter of food in the world.
5YDP TIL Chinese leader Mao Zedong from 1958 - 1962, murdered 45 million of his own citizens. Death toll during World War 2 was 55 million worldwide.