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TIL A Platypus is one of the few mammals to produce venom.

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7rrmL TIL Oyster Mushrooms (white edible mushrooms that grow on dead trees) are carnivorous. They have microscopic lassos that attract nematodes with a chemical, then constrict around the nematode and release a toxin that paralyzes the nematode so they can absorb nitrogen from them.
nN4W TIL that Boston Corbett, the soldier who killed John Wilkes Booth, castrated himself with a pair of scissors so he wouldn’t be tempted by prositutes
m1EBp TIL about The Musalman, the world's only newspaper which is entirely written by hand instead of being typed. This Chennai-based Urdu-language newspaper has been circulated since 1927 and is 4 pages long.
E1MXX TIL the real mastermind behind the Sook Ching massacre and Bataan Death March got off scot-free by hiding out in and working for China, then returned to Japan and became a member of diet, became a spy for the CIA, and vanished in Vietnam under unknown circumstances never to be seen again
p8M9p TIL that the Chicagoland Tylenol murders still remain unsolved and no one was ever charged. In 1982, 7 people were murdered via cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules; leading to industry-wide tamper-proof seals and phasing out of capsules.