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TIL that the most emotionally intelligent person I know doesn’t speak and never has.

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Z8Q7Y TIL a type of sea slug called Elysia chlorotica can carry out photosynthesis. They can go without eating for nine months or more, photosynthesizing with its stolen plant-parts as it basks in the sun.
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