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TIL that the Coelacanth and the Lungfish are more closely related to Mammals than to other Ray-Finned fish

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v1eDx TIL that over 10% of Canada’s population are descended from impoverished British children that were sent to work on Canadian farms between 1869 and 1939.
oEx7 TIL of the World Health Organization “Cocaine Project,” which was banned from publication because it concluded that, “occasional cocaine use does not typically lead to severe or even minor physical or social problems,” among other positives
vpg8 TIL jaguars use their paws to dislocate necks. While hunting horses, they will place one paw on the muzzle and another on the nape and then twist.
oRMML TIL there is a unit of measurement used to measure the distance to celestial bodies based on the distance between the Earth and the Sun
b9ma0 TIL that each strand of corn silk is attached to an individual corn kernel