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TIL biologists may have discovered the world's largest rat species, which was found in the crater of a volcano in Papua New Guinea

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LQgy9 TIL: The Mediterranean Sea has a high salinity because around 5 million years ago it, for not 100% known reasons, dried up for roughly 500,000 years.
D88r TIL of the Daughter from California Syndrome where relatives of terminal patients who haven’t seen them in a long time demand aggressive procedures to prolong their life.
Rlja TIL the U.S. Army Soldier’s Creed was changed in 2003 to remove the part of never doing anything that will “disgrace my uniform, my unit, or my country”
ne0Vo TIL if his Foreign Language Film Oscar is counted, Bong Joon Ho is tied as the most awarded person in a single night in Oscar history
0OV5 TIL that the pacemaker, fridges, WiFi and Google Maps are all Australian inventions.