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TIL that there are a handful of arthropods that grow tiny gardens on their backs as a form of camouflage and that those mini gardens support microscopic ecosystems of their own!

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5Vlbn TIL about mithraism --a cult that became so popular, that it expanded from Roman Africa to Britain. It was considered the competition of christianity and were persecuted until the cult faded in the 4th century.
QpQd TIL that the American flag planted on the moon by the crew of Apollo 11 was blown over by the exhaust of the Lunar Module when taking off
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