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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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4Xve6 TIL due to a shortage of space, burials in cemeteries are limited in Singapore to a maximum of 15 years, after which the deceased must be dug up and cremated.
OoNbL TIL That the phrase 'flying saucer' used as a substitute for an UFO is the result of a mistaken newspaper report in 1947 of the first well-known UFO sighting by the business mogul Kenneth Arnold who said the speeding aerial was crescent-shaped but moved "like saucers skipping on water".
1Ad8 TIL that a 30 mile giant eye in the Sahara Desert once served as a geographical landmark for astronauts.
E1yBw TIL you have to cook lobsters alive because they are full of toxic bacteria that multiply rapidly after death
rRLke TIL the greater rhea, an ostrich-like bird native to South America, is now represented by a small but growing wild population in northern Germany after some escaped from a game farm in 2000. Hunting was recently introduced to control the population.