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TIL that Platypuses don’t have nipples... Despite being mammals and having mammary glands platypuses do not have nipples with which to fed their babies. Instead they release milk through glands like sweat. The milk then gathers in grooves on the mum’s abdomen where the puggles lap it up..

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rNKK0 TIL that the highest-flying living thing on Earth is a type of bacteria called Bacillus stratosphericus, which can be found floating in the air at altitudes of up to 41 kilometers (25 miles)
worQ7 TIL John Casablancas, the founder of Elite Modeling, married a 17 year old when he was 50
5jP9 TIL while giving a speech in the US in 1965, the Canadian PM criticized US bombing in Vietnam. Before he finished his speech, he was summoned to meet with US President Lyndon Johnson the next day. Johnson reportedly grabbed him and shouted, “Don’t you come into my living room and piss on my rug.”
b9A97 TIL: Mansa Musa was an African Muslim king, whose 4,000-mile trip to Mecca accompanied by a caravan of 60,000 people and thousands of servants. Historians believe that he is the richest man in the worlds history - with an inflation-adjusted fortune, his wealth amounts to around $400 billion today.
OGP7e TIL Monty Python came to Germany in 1972, long before many other countries. The comedians were invited by Alfred Biolek to make TV specials in Germany, the first was performed phonetically and the second was dubbed. Terry Jones could still recite the German lumberjack song fourty years later.