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TIL I learned that southers casowary's eggs are green

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jNp7a TIL that hagfish can eat by simply sitting inside a corpse and absorbing nutrients directly through their skin and gills. Their skin is actually more efficient at absorbing nutrients than their own intestines.
N7YdN TIL George Romero came up with the screenplay for "Night of the Living Dead" from a short story he wrote, which he "basically ripped off" from the Richard Matheson novel "I Am Legend".
8e8wL TIL since 2009, the names of planets from the Dune novels have been adopted for the real-world nomenclature of plains and other features on Saturn's moon Titan, like Arrakis Planitia.
d8Zmr TIL a Nigerian woman named Efunroye Tinubu was one of the wealthiest slave traders. She defied British attempts to abolish the slave trade and there is a monument in Nigeria dedicated to her
16pZP TIL why all clocks go clockwise. In Medieval times, the sun-dials used as clocks in Northern Hemisphere used to trace clockwise. Early timepieces were made to mimic this motion. This, however, became such a norm that we started describing rotational motion in 2D as "clock"wise and counter"clock"wise