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TIL that a scorpion can hold its breath for 6 days

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wL956 TIL axolotl are a population of larval tiger salamanders that mutated the ability to forego metamorphosis when reaching sexual maturity. They retain their larval gills which enable them to live fully aquatically. They are used in labs to study the thyroid, which regulates their maturing.
ZpJBD TIL when there were less than 5,000 Europeans in the large Louisiana area of New France before 1724, hundreds of good women, and also separately hundreds of criminal women were sent to Louisiana because of a shortage of women.
R74x6 TIL that Parks & Recreation successfully predicted the Chicago Cubs to win the 2016 World Series in one of their episodes that aired in 2015.
VBX4B TIL that in WWI, there were bicycle ambulances, made of two, three, or four bicycles with an attached stretcher. Two-bicycle ambulances were developed as early as the 1890s.
p8VyG TIL that small bluish-gray band on the horizon during sunset is actually the Earth's shadow being cast on the atmosphere.