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TIL the tiny garish Crucifix Toad secretes a glue to catch insect prey that has been found to be the strongest non-toxic adhesive known, works irrespective of temperature or moisture while remaining flexible and porous, and has exciting new applications in medicine, as it is ‘highly biocompatible’.

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VBld0 TIL Pandas become too lazy to mate in a perfect habitat
rRkYd TIL The girl who sang "I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" was gifted a hippo in real life as a result of the song
l78Pa TIL that US is a neighboring country of South Korea and Japan because of Guam, a full fledge US territory with 168 thousands inhabitants despite it's not even on the same side of the Earth with continental US.
PYloV TIL that a study co-authored by hundreds of physicists, "The Effects of Peanut Butter on the Rotation of the Earth," is only one sentence long: "So far as we can determine, peanut butter has no effect on the rotation of the earth."
j6xbQ TIL Devon Allen, track & field athlete/Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver, was disqualified in the World Athletic Championships for a controversial false start. The starting blocks measured his reaction time from the time the gun went off at 0.099, which is 0.001 seconds faster than legally allowed.