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TIL that around 30 per cent all the adaptive mutations in our genome – a third of human evolution – has been in response to viruses.

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BgKkx TIL about the Apple Eight car-a short-lived American automobile manufactured by the Apple Motor Car Company in Dayton, Ohio, from 1915 to 1917.
N7EPQ TIL of the Byford Dolphin decompression incident, where a diver was forced through a 60cm (24 inch) opening by compressed air and violently dismembered. Additionally, it caused the "expulsion of all of the internal organs of his chest and abdomen"
4Ga5 TIL that bumblebees are capable of flying at altitudes higher than Mt. Everest. Two bees were able to fly at simulated altitudes of 29,525 feet inside a plexiglass chamber. The plexiglass kept breaking before the bees stopped flying.
7rD8M TIL the former US president has 7 species named after him in honor, and the current one has 1 primarily because of resemblance
YpoKr TIL Central America/Mexico has a jumping spider that exhibits traits and isotopic signatures of herbivorous animals, and while it may steal the occasional ant larvae during particularly dry seasons 90% of it's diet is from protein and fat-rich nubs called Belitan nubs from Mimosaceae trees.