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TIL Sharks have been around on Earth longer than Trees

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BrXlD TIL that 23% of Americans aged 18-34 are living with parents (increase from 15% in 1975).
D1ElV TIL Lab Mice are unintentionally bread with long telomeres which could invalidate most studies involving mice.
GYDN1 TIL that the word helicopter is not split up into "heli" and "copter" but rather split into "helico" meaning spiral and "-pter" meaning one with wings
a81O9 TIL that the word thug is derived from the Hindi word 'thugee' who were a criminal network of robbers and murderers that operated in India during the British Raj. They would befriend travellers, gain their trust, loot them and then kill them
5Y7er TIL Bee's deposit a small positive electric charge on each flower they visit. They also posses "Electroreception" which allows them to detect the presence of electric fields on flowers. They use this info to know if a flower has been recently visited by another bee and therefore has less nectar.