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TIL about Tarrare, a French spy and Performer who had such an appetite he would eat live cats and puppies, cadavers from morgues and was even suspected of kidnapping and eating a baby. He would also eat from heaps of dung in the street and as a spy, the entire army's rations.

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vPy8K TIL about unisexual mole salamanders - a group of all-female salamanders that use a unique reproductive strategy called kleptogenesis. These salamanders "steal" sperm from up to five different species of salamanders in the Ambystoma genus and use it to produce female hybrid offspring.
KYG9R TIL that in Russia, posers can rent iPhone boxes or bouquet of flowers to pretend they've got one
grr8b TIL that there was a real life Fat Man from the Fallout series (which is a portable mini nuclear warhead launcher) created by the US Military in 1961 called the Davey Crockett. It never saw use in combat.
GANvN TIL punk band The Sex Pistols were a manufactured band created as way to promote a clothing store.
DNYJ TIL Sweden has almost zero child fatalities in car crashes because most parents keep children rear facing until age 4