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TIL 2% of scientists admitted to falsifying, fabricating, or modifying data at least once

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XGpE TIL: Platypuses have no teats, they secrete their milk through their pores.
yQXoX TIL in the movie "There Will Be Blood", Paul Dano had originally been cast in the smaller role of Paul Sunday. Two weeks into filming, Dano replaced the actor playing Eli Sunday and only had four days to prepare for the much larger role.
4XAxX TIL that scientists put horses in black-and-white striped costumes to try and find out why zebras are stripy. It seems that the stripes make flies less likely to land on them.
N0K8 TIL that the full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon river once a day and once a night for a period of only three weeks once a year, resulting in a continues, 4m high wave that can be surfed for up to 13km.
b6RGp TIL that the state of Iowa used to have an even 100 counties until Bancroft county was abolished in 1857 and joined Kossuth county, thus making it the largest county in the state. Since then, two attempts at recreating the county have failed, leaving Iowa a state of 99 counties.