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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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78Qg7 TIL Mark Twain is often wrongly credited with the quote: "I would have written a shorter letter, but did not have the time." Earliest credit goes to French mathematician and philospher Blaise Pascal in “Lettres Provinciales,” 1657.
awXgy TIL about Ambroise Paré, a barber surgeon (he was both) who discovered that a mixture made of egg yolk, oil of roses and turpentine was more effective in treating war wounds than boiling oil, which was the standard treatment method at that time.
ZpRe4 TIL that the 22nd amendment only has provisions for electing a president to more than two terms. It says nothing about vice-presidents ascending to the presidency.
VdK0 TIL that “o'clock” is a contraction of “stroke of the clock” and comes from 15th century references to medieval mechanical clocks
D1kgJ TIL White claw has Canadian origins