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TIL the duck-billed platypus coexisted with dinosaurs, with scientists dating them back to the Jurassic period.

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4WGg TIL “supper” and “dinner” are not interchangeable, but determine the size of the meal. Dinner is the largest, most formal meal
1PYX TIL human twins can have 2 different fathers, but the same mother. This is called bi-paternal twins.
PZDL TIL German was the second largest spoken language in the U.S. before it was forcibly oppressed during the First World War. Americans with German ancestry, are still the single largest ethnic group in the U.S.
KOpba TIL that ferrets don't exist in the wild; they're the domesticated form of the European polecat, and America's "black-footed ferret" is, in fact, actually a species of polecat.
V6Qk TIL that the 8 year old Afghani skateboarder on the front page was killed in a suicide attack on September 8th, 2012. Here is the news update from the school.