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TIL that the first European scientists to examine a Platypus body thought that it was fake, believing it was made of several other animal pieced together

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e0nK6 TIL of a man by the name of Gerald Foo who bought a motel and built viewing panels into the ceiling of the rooms to conduct in-depth sexual research from the attic for 30 years.
DQDpP TIL a study found that nine fatal, predatory wolf attacks occurred worldwide between 2002-2020. And only two of those attacks took place in North America.
KYJaE TIL Abraham Lincoln actually liked the song “Dixie” despite its confederate association. After Richmond was captured he requested a band play it saying “Our adversaries over the way attempted to appropriate it, but I insisted yesterday that we fairly captured it.”
GrjJ TIL that the replacement for ivory billiard balls were ones made from nitrocellulose, which occasionally exploded on impact with another ball. A bar owner wrote to the inventor saying that they didn’t bother him much but for the fact that every man in his saloon immediately pulled a gun at the sound
5Y1mR TIL hundreds of dead animal carcasses including pets were found in West Virginia in the woods. Some had been decapitated and a few had intravenous tubes inserted in their forelegs.