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TIL The First Scientists to examine a preserved Platypus body (1799) determined it was fake and made of several animals sewn together.

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R59ba TIL about the Diprotodon – the largest marsupial ever. It weighed up to 3,500 kg (close to an Asian elephant), looked like some capybara on steroids and was likely driven to extinction by humans some 40,000 years ago
xWYk TIL The synthesizer that Ferris Bueller uses to simulate his realistic-sounding coughs is an E-MU Emulator II, which at the time went for around $8,000. That’s equivalent to over $17,000 in today’s dollars. Having said that, if he were to have traded it in, he definitely could have afforded a car.
PjNJ TIL a jealous wife in China chopped off her cheating husband’s penis as he slept, then snuck into his hospital room after he had it sewn back on — and hacked it off again and tossed it out the window.
4Xe8o TIL that in the 80s, businessman Armand Hammer bought a significant portion of the company that makes "Arm & Hammer" products simply because people kept asking him about the name
E0RW TIL that Marie Curie’s daughter also received a Nobel prize in chemistry. And she also shared it with her husband.