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TIL a 2022 study included a mouse that was produced from a single unfertilized egg (parthenogenesis) and grew to adulthood & successfully reproduced, which was thought to be impossible in mammals.

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vOND TIL there is a bird that can imitate the sounds of chainsaws and car alarms.
rNRNe TIL there were several different types of Mammoths. The most known variety, the Wooly Mammoth, was one of the smaller kinds, and were comparable in size to modern elephants, At one time there were Mammoths living from North Africa, across all of Eurasia, and into Central America.
YpM5A TIL that for four years a japanese man was challengened to stay locked up completely naked in an apartment for a tv show akin to the movie the Tru-man show. when he eventually got released his diary became a bestseller in Japan
PYyMV TIL that during Vostok 4, Russian cosmonaut Pavel Popovich said that he was able to observe thunderstorms from his spacecraft. However, he forgot that the Russian word for thunderstorms was the agreed upon code word for extreme nausea requiring immediate landing, and his mission was cut short.
vO6x TIL that in the original story, Sleeping Beauty was raped by the prince.