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TIL the male platypus is venomous and the venom is painful, immediate, long-lasting, and impervious to painkillers.

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pDwp TIL Ghostbusters: The Video Game (2009) has voice acting from all four of the original cast members (Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson), who helped write the script as well. Aykroyd considers it “essentially the third movie”
oXd8 TIL that after a major earthquake in Japan the Mafia sent major relief before the Government
1am18 TIL: The airspeed velocity of a (European) unladen swallow is about 24 miles per hour or 11 meters per second.
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