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TIL gorillas are in a semi-permanent state of flatulence, meaning they're always farting, due to the bacteria in their gut and the almost 40 pounds of vegetation they consume daily

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ANJX4 TIL that platypuses sweat milk. This is because it doesn't have teats. Milk appears as sweat on a platypus, but it's an aquatic mammal so it doesn't actually sweat at all.
loPJr TIL a scientist named Doctor Claire Rind wanted to design a collision-avoidance system for cars, so she made locusts watch Star Wars while monitoring the reactions of their visual systems. A robot was programmed with the data obtained and was able to avoid collisions 91% of the time.
W7ERo TIL In 1784 King Louis XVI of France commissioned several scientists to investigate amimal magnetism. One of the scientists was Benjamin Franklin who performed one the first systematic controlled trials and found no evidence of animal magnetism.
x6E60 TIL on 1856, William Henry Perkin discovered mauveine (one of the first synthetic dyes) while attempting to synthetize quinine
M7gVW TIL that Christian Science runs the CSM. This may seem like a "well duh" revelation but Christian Science believes that all diseases are in the head (basically the medical version of flat eartherism) while the CSM is actually quite a reputable source and even won a few Pulitzer Prizes