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TIL Europe was called the “Far West” in the Far East

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69PE7 TIL that Svante Pääbo, the 2022 Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine, is the son of Sune Bergström, who is also a Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine (1982).
Pl5n Til during the process of becoming a butterfly the entire caterpillar will break down into a liquid.
vNm7 TIL that Superb Fairy-wrens teach their eggs a ‘secret password’ that the young can sing when they hatch. Those that sing the password get food, and the brood parasite eggs (which don’t learn the password) go hungry!
4X0RJ TIL Antarctica once had Trees.
Y7p9G TIL the youngest sea is the Baltic Sea, at between 10,000 - 15,000 years old.