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TIL Nine-banded armadillos always have litters of identical quadruplets

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kg6B TIL a programmer at a game company got so tired of producers asking for changes just because they felt they had to contribute, that he animated a flapping duck into the game “Battle Chess”. When the producer reviewed the animations, he said, “That looks great. Just one thing: get rid of the duck.”
Q4QL TIL of an Auschwitz survivor who avoided doctors for 65 years after he was tested on by Auschwitz “doctor” Josef Mengele who, among other things, removed his kidney without anesthesia.
6beZ TIL that the first documented appearance of “the finger” in the United States was in 1886, when Charles Radbourn, a baseball pitcher for the Boston Beaneaters, was photographed giving it to a member of their rival the New York Giants.
DQ07r TIL Japan used a biological attack during WW2 which was largely covered up after the war.
8avJa TIL That Paul McCartney is credited for chewing celery as percussion in a Beach Boys song