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TIL Razor Clams emerge from the ground like giant boners. Warning: Very funny

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jNYRQ TIL of puppy pregnancy syndrome (PPS). When a dog bites a person, male or female, and they become convinced that puppies are growing inside them... and PPS in some regions hinders treatment of rabies
R7oo9 TIL - It is well documented that for centuries, Koreans ate much more food than their Asian neighbors. A 19th century visitor wrote: "When it comes to serving fruits, for example with large peaches, even a person with the most restraint eats around ten; it is not uncommon to see a person eating 30".
eeAb TIL that the DNA within each cell is almost 2 m long, but it is constrained in no more than 0.09 mm
D1xoj TIL if you trace back the family tree of a drone bee, the number of parents in each generation follows the Fibonacci sequence.
D1BjV TIL The world's oldest known creature was a 507-year-old mollusk, that lived from 1499 until the day scientists found and killed it by mistake.