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TIL of gyandromorphism: an occurence in nature in which an organism has both male and female characteristics in one body; sometimes surfacing as male on one half of the body and female on the other.

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9Qpr TIL 1/3 of classified dinosaurs may have never existed.
GY17E TIL police dogs can be trained to detect either explosives or narcotics, but never both.
geRA TIL that certain Popeye’s locations in the South serve fried chicken livers. They aren’t the healthiest option - one serving of Popeye’s chicken livers contains a whopping 765mg of cholesterol. (For reference, eating a stick of butter would be 243mg of cholesterol.)
vPvPr TIL there are no living direct descendants of Julius Caesar. The closest descendants are from Caesar's great nephew Augustus, who had a daughter, Julia that bore 6 children.
aEn0 TIL Adolph Malan, a South African flying ace, led the No. 74 Squadron RAF during the battle of Briton, known for sending bomber pilots home with dead crews as a warning to other German crews. When he returned home, he considered apartheid a Nazi ideal, and got involved in anti-apartheid movements.