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TIL slugs evolved from snails, and exposing baby snails to platinum turns them into slugs.

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8a6EV TIL mother polar bears nurse their cubs for as long as 30 months. Some cubs stop nursing as young as 18 months of age, but remain with their mothers for survival until they are 30 months old. The average fat content of polar bear milk is 33%, similar to the milkfat content of other marine mammals.
pVMZ TIL: OJ Simpson’s father was a well known drag queen and died of aids in 1986.
vPgJL TIL Crispin Glover did not reprise his role as George McFly in Back to the Future II and filed a lawsuit that created new rules for use of likeness with the SAG
LkVVd TIL 13-year-old Canadian tech prodigy Tanmay Bakshi started using computers at age 5, launched his first app at age 9, and has been working with IBM’s AI and cognitive APIs for a couple of years now.
oRmMW TIL that the McGurk effect is an auditory illusion where the exact same sound is perceived as sounding different when it's accompanied by someone moving their mouth differently for each sound