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TIL that echidnas don't have teeth. They have ridges of small, spike-like protrusions made of keratin on their tongues and the roofs of their mouths that help grind down their food

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XEQdk TIL Borat never actually filmed in a village in Kazakhstan, the village was actually in Romania, and the villagers were angry when they found out Borat had duped them after they were shown the film by visitors
kZa1 TIL that the crew of the Apollo 15 moon mission took 398 unauthorised postage stamp covers to the moon with them, with the intention of selling 100 of them to a German stamp dealer who provided them. When discovered, NASA re-assigned all the astronauts involved to non-flight roles.
0kGy TIL that in order to get seeds from lettuce, the grower has to neglect them. Once they begin to die, their only priority is to ensure the next generation, and thus the only time they seed. (SN: you preserve lettuce seeds in powered milk).
ZMOv TIL that Thora Birch was 16 and therefore considered a minor when she shot her nude scene for “American Beauty.” Her parents and child labor board members monitored the shoot.
E51w TIL Howard Hughes bought an entire casino just so he could tear down their neon sign. Visible from Hughes’ bedroom, it apparently had kept him up at night.