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TIL there used to be a horse sized duck living in Australia

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Y7XXP TIL that gambling is analogous to a scarcity-related foraging behavior found in non-human species.
WkAA8 TIL that in 2004, a woman's steel chastity belt triggered a security alarm at the metal detector. The woman explained that her husband had forced her to wear the device to prevent an extramarital affair while she was on vacation in Greece. She continued her flight to London on the pilot's authority.
XOrP TIL that Pablo Picasso, living in Nazi-occupied Paris, suffered harassment from the Gestapo. One officer allegedly asked him, upon seeing a photo of his painting Guernica in his apartment, “Did you do that?” Picasso responded, “No, you did.”
R7X17 TIL Jain tirthankara(spiritual teacher) Neminatha became a monk because he heard the cries of animals being killed for his marriage feast. He left his marriage and freed the animals.
mEaM TIL that Magneto was based on Malcolm X and Prof. X was based on Martin Luther King, Jr.