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TIL that some baby turtles talk to each other while they are still in their eggs so that they all hatch together.

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ADnZx TIL that the Soviet Union was the first and only country to explore the surface of Venus.
pYnnN TIL that baby chickens imprinting on a robot that was made to randomly move in a room affected the robots movements. This means that hoping for a song in a playlist on shuffle and getting that same song like you were hoping for may not be a coincidence.
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