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Certain species of planarians (a type of flatworm) have been gradually taught to run a maze. If you grind them up and feed them to a second batch of planarians, the second batch can run the maze on the first try.

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    Well that’s just creepy.

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    Freaky

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Certain species of planarians (a type of flatworm) have been gradually taught to run a maze. If you grind them up and...

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    Only works with flatworms thankgoodness. Or else there’d be cannibalism everywhere = n =

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    check the source. you wont be sorry.

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    it is fascinating & terrifying…

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    HA. Old wives tale. They used to think this, but later figured out that if you feed planaria ground up planaria to eat,...

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    Gonna hire scientists to teach some planarians how to play violin, break dance, speak French, etc and then have them in...

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    Fucking scientists are just messing with us at this point.

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    no

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    uhhhhhhhhh interesting fact….but kinda gross and creepy.

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