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TIL that Australia is the only continent with more venomous snakes than there are non-venomous ones.

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9YAyG TIL the earliest evidence of hominid murder is 430,000 yr old skull found in the Atapuerca Mountains of Spain. The skull has two distinct holes in the forehead, thought to be from blunt force trauma and was found dumped down a deep shaft in a cave.
b9GJa TIL about a species called the pied hoverfly (Scaeva pyrastri). It has copied the appearance of a wasp but it’s white. They do this to fool their natural enemies into not eating them because wasp are poisonous. So if u ever see one, don't worry it's harmless. (See link for photo’s)
JY1oV TIL Three explorers who wanted to prove that the penguins are the missing link between birds and reptiles went in the middle of the Antarctic winter (–60C) to collect penguin eggs in 1911 and when they returned back with the eggs the museum initially refused to look at them.
awdMy TIL Brenda Vaccaro's 1980 Playtex Ad was infamous for her loud inhalations. Producers pulled the ad, took out her breathing, and re-released the ad, showing her taking breaths even though you could not hear them. It resulted in SCTV famously spoofing the Ad and the ad being pulled entirely.
WkVv4 TIL an underground street artist movement that began in Texas known as "Knitta Please" and artists simply known as Knittas. They used knitting in place of spray paint for graffiti tagging. Their was to make street art "warm and fuzzy."