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TIL so many species of non-crab crustaceans have evolved in a crab-like direction that we have a word for that, and it's Carcinisation

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xg91 TIL Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey circus has retired all but 11 elephants and will retire those 11 after a final show May 1st, 2016. The elephants will go to a Florida conservation where they help with cancer research, as they possess a special “P53 gene” which fights cancer.
9YbLr TIL: Former member of Blink-182, Tom DeLonge, has signed a research agreement with the Army to study "inertial mass reduction, mechanical/structural meta materials, electromagnetic meta material wave guides, quantum physics, quantum communications, and beamed energy propulsion"
7rwQX TIL British Admiral Horatio Nelson, commander-in-chief of the British fleet in the Mediterranean in 1804, then the largest naval force in existence suffered from seasickness ever since he joined the navy at the age of 12.
VybQ TIL When Frank Sinatra’s son was kidnapped the kidnappers demanded that all communication be on payphones.Sinatra was concerned he wouldn’t have enough change to complete the calls. He carried a roll of dimes with him at all times for the rest of his life; he was buried with ten dimes in his pocket.
PYJgG TIL American Sign Language and British Sign Language are not mutually intelligible. While English speakers can understand each other across the Anglosphere, deaf people from different English speaking countries are unable to understand each other.