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TIL: Cuttlefish are considered one of the ocean’s most intelligent creatures and are an important example of advanced cognitive evolution in animals.

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XQZ6 TIL The Pirahã people of Brazil live without the concepts of numbers or time. They can’t count and use an “analog estimation strategy” which works well for trying to solve problems involving a few items but breaks down beyond that.
v115D TIL that within about 600 million years, faster weathering of rocks by an increasingly brighter sun will reduce atmospheric CO2 levels below the threshold required for trees to survive, and all of earth's forests will die.
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