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TIL: before 2019 you could only see Platypus in Australia, captive or wild, they are very difficult to keep & breed in captivity. two at San Diego Zoo are still alive.

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xoeD TIL that the phrase ‘cellar door’ was determined by experts to be the most euphonious phrase, or pleasant sounding, in all of English.
j6PM TIL: In the Grimm version of Snow White, the evil queen dies by being forced to wear red-hot iron shoes at Snow White’s wedding party
PnNe TIL Ancient Egyptian families would mourn the death of a family cat by shaving off their eyebrows. The cat was embalmed with a sculpted wooden mask and the tiny mummy was placed in the family tomb or in a pet cemetery with tiny mummies of mice.
MemNB TIL the British Library must store one copy of every single book published in the UK and Ireland. It houses over 200,000,000 publications, adds 6 miles (9.65 km) of new shelf space a year, and receives over 8000 new publications each day
A7o TIL that Green Day chose that name because they were all potheads at the time