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TIL our closest non-primate relative is the flying lemur. They are one of the inaccurately named animals as they cannot fly and are not lemurs but colugos

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4XXN TIL A Roman Catholic physician developed the first modern form of birth control.
LvA0 TIL contrary to popular belief, tortoises are in fact turtles rather than part of a separate group.
6ELRZ TIL of The Anonymous Project, a collection of castoff photos, a lot of them Kodachrome, from years gone by.
EgG00 TIL that even though dead bones are dry and brittle, living bones are wet and a bit soft. In order to absorb pressure, bones are also slightly flexible. Up to one-third of a living bone's weight is water.
8ekW4 TIL a robot named HitchBot successfully hitchhiked across Canada, Germany and the Netherlands, but got decapitated while hitchhiking across the US