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TIL that a platypus hunts via electricity and has 80 different kinds of venomous toxins.

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gMOm9 TIL deodorant was first sold in the 1900s and didn’t become popular until advertising agencies convinced consumers that body odor was bad.
aYOo TIL that China goes through 80 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks a year. 20 million trees are cut every year to meet Chinese demand for chopsticks.
OGO4X TIL that in 2017 and 2018, three academics submitted hoax articles, among them a Mein Kampf Passage rewritten with feminist lingo, into Gender and Race research journals in order to expose corruption in the field they called "grievance studies" They got away with it until their public reveal in 2018
VBkVB TIL pigeons can be trained to diagnose cancer from biopsy images with the same accuracy as medical pathologists
9wKjr TIL that when boxer Sonny Liston became world heavyweight, he had prepared a speech for the crowd he was told would be greeting him at the airport. No crowd turned up, and this is put at the point that Liston realised he would never be accepted as champion.