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TIL: Coastal species are using plastic trash as rafts to spread across the oceans

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Jv6k TIL that the Vatican says that followers of Pope Francis on twitter will have less time in Purgatory.
Wpj9 TIL in 2013, Costa Rica announced it would close all its zoos, effective March 2014, and free animals either to the wild or to safe “retirement” shelters. Officials say this is a response to “a change of environmental conscience among Costa Ricans”
jNVVv TIL about Lady Qi, consort of Emperor Gaozu founder of the Han dynasty, whose limbs were chopped off, eyes were gouged out, tongue cut off, ears cut off, made mute, locked in a pigsty and referred to as "human swine" by the Empress Dowager Lü Zhi who was apparently not on very good terms with her
yV5gV TIL : Crayfish burrows are made in lawns, called "Mud Chimneys"
R564 TIL that the Lingerie Football League claims to have fired several current NFL replacement refs for gross incompetence