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TIL: A newly discovered species of gecko has tearaway skin that leaves predators with nothing but a mouthful of scales when attacked.

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WGoN TIL that the at-sign, @, is not a modern invention. It has been found on documents as old as 1345.
DMgJ TIL Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia all have a higher proportion of women in parliament than the USA does in congress
Z8Wva TIL that the FIRST individual in human history to denounce racism in a documented account was the Prophet Muhammad of Islam.
YpbOG TIL: In 1946 the US Army commissioned a documentary called " Let There be Light " intended to teach the public about PTSD and the treatment of the veterans with the mental disability, the film after it's release was banned in the US until the 1980s.
8bgL TIL there is a species of ants called the Mycocepurus Smithii that reproduce by cloning. No male of this species has ever been found.