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TIL Platypuses are biofluorescent with a research study in 2020 finding that they glow bluish-green when exposed to a black light.

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9M16 TIL that “liquid breathing” is possible with a liquid called Perfluorocarbon
Epk7 TIL the movie “The China Syndrome”, which tells the story of a reporter who discovers safety coverups at a nuclear power plant, was met with backlash from the nuclear power industry for being “sheer fiction”. Twelve days later, the Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown accident occurred.
p8bxA TIL In the Atacama Desert in Chile, there's 3,000-year-old, densely packed shrub called llareta. The plant prefers sandy, well-drained soils. It can grow in nutritionally poor soils that are acidic, neutral, or basic (alkaline) at altitudes of up to 5,200 metres (17,100 ft).
R704 TIL Iraqi insurgents intercepted video feeds of American Predator drones using a $26 piece of Russian software named SkyGrabber.
oRBPK TIL Yuri Knorozov, a Soviet Officer in the Second World War, went on to become essential in the deciphering of Maya hieroglyphics after finding a book in the German National Library during the end of the war, and taking the statement that "Maya Hieroglyphics were indecipherable" personally.