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Today I Learned How To Build A Natural Shelter

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Wk7ed In Tanzania, a non-profit organization called APOPO trains African giant pouched rats to save lives by detecting landmines and tuberculosis.
wLQ71 TIL The shaggy coat of sloths are host to symbiotic green algae which camouflages the sloth in trees and provides it nutrients. The green color of the algae makes sloths the only green mammal.
wPM1 TIL: In 2005, Canada became the first country outside Europe, to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide by passing the Civil Marriage Act
nWPvo TIL that giant “Terror Birds” (dinosaur descendants) ruled as apex predators in South America until about 1.8 million years ago. They ruled for nearly 60 million years after the dinosaurs, until the Great American Interchange.
gMl5L TIL of No Kum-sok, a North Korean pilot who defected in his MiG-15, allowing the Wests first look at the fighter. As part of Operation Moolah, he was given $100k and later became a US Citizen and aeronautical engineer