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TIL there is a fossil of Archaeopteryx missing since the death of the last owner

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xVj8b TIL in 1969 Penn State student Betsy Aardsma was doing research in the campus library when she was stabbed in the chest. Because the wound was so small and the fact that she was wearing a red dress, paramedics thought that she had a seizure before she died. The case is still unsolved.
VMZa4 TIL: In 2004, a study was conducted to test the correlation between video game usage and surgical performance. It turned out that of the doctors sampled, the surgeons who played video games at least 3 hours a week performed surgeries 27% faster and with 37% less errors than their counterparts!
XGpE TIL: Platypuses have no teats, they secrete their milk through their pores.
vPaGD TIL of Kyle Maynard, an American speaker, author and mixed martial arts athlete, known for becoming the first quadruple amputee to ascend Mount Kilimanjaro without the aid of prosthetics.
VMDMB TIL a BBC analysis of 19 chocolate products between 2014 and 2018, revealed that 18 of them had shrunk in size. The worst hit by ‘shrinkflation’ in the study was a four-pack of Snickers, which reduced by 28.1%, from 232g to 167g