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TIL that platypus will attack hidden batteries in their habitat after sensing their voltage and believing them to be prey.

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rR6pW TIL that the most successful female sniper in history, Ludmila Pavlichenko, couldn't pull the trigger on her first kill, until she saw a German shooting a young Russian soldier. She went on to record 309 confirmed kills in WWII.
yv0w TIL that the southern white rhino once had a population of 50 and now they number greater than 11,000 (unfortunately, conservation success does not always occur)
D1XJp TIL Cleopatra VII and Julius Caesar had child named Caesarion, he was murdered by Caesar adopted son because ''it's not good to have too many Caesars"''
awDd9 TIL A Florida artist created the cover for Playboy's special Hugh Hefner tribute issue using hundreds of bits of paper culled from the Playboy magazine archives. He got the job two days after Hefner's death when he emailed Playboy a brief proposal offering his services
xWv0 TIL a hot dog stand in the center of the Pentagon was rumored to be the target of a Soviet missile strike during the Cold War because the Soviets reportedly thought it was the Pentagon’s most top secret meeting room, and the entire Pentagon was a large fortress built around the hot dog stand.