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TIL that hockey players Claude and Brendan Lemieux are the only father and son to both be punished by the NHL for biting other players.

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oxkr TIL Bakhtiyar Khilji, the Muslim general destroyed the ancient university and library of Nalanda in 1193 in hopes of uprooting Buddhism. The destruction of the library is considered responsible for the demise of ancient Indian scientific thought in Maths, Astronomy, Alchemy, and Anatomy.
0Zwv TIL that the Geneva Convention prohibits the use of modified weather as a weapon in war
9YRar TIL the song Over the River and Through the Wood is actually about Thanksgiving, and although we don't usually associate Thanksgiving with snow, at the time it was written, in the early 19th century, New England was going through the Little Ice Age.
lVvr TIL that the United States is one of only 8 countries experiencing an increase in maternal deaths due to complications of childbirth: the rate has more than doubled in the last 30 years.
nv5r TIL: The duck billed platypuses hunts with it’s eyes and nose closed. It instead uses it’s bill to detect the electrical fields that it’s prey produces through muscle movement.