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TIL: Americans can fly to the moon faster than to New Zealand

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Y7VQr TIL The cute looking pygmy slow lorises are the only known venomous primate. Modified sweat glands near their elbows allow pygmy slow lorises to secrete a toxin. When they’re alarmed, they can lick these glands, spreading the toxin to their teeth, able to incapacitate predators as large as humans
MegaK TIL that the keyboard player on Tom Jones' "It's Not Unusual" was a (pre-fame) Elton John! The guitarist? Jimmy Page!
MeYOm TIL It is Illegal in the US to Grow Wheat in Your Backyard.
loOEA TIL of "Dreadnoughtus", one of the largest dinosaurs that ever existed. The fossil skeleton of the individual was 85ft/26m, but was not even a full grown adult and expected to grown even larger!
W7549 TIL that 'The Teachings of Don Juan' and its sequels were submitted to the UCLA Department of Anthropology as non-fictional accounts of shamanism in the American Southwest; they earned their author a PhD. The books were later discredited as fabrications