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

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ebW4 TIL that in 1567,Hans Steininger, the man said to have the longest beard in the world, died after he tripped over his beard and broke his neck running away from a fire. He usually bundled up his beard in a leather pouch, but that day he hadn’t.
4Xx0o TIL: A man found guilty of deer poaching has been sentenced to a year in prison, and has been ordered to watch Bambi at least once a month during that year
GYGR5 TIL Ang Mey was one of few female rulers in Cambodia's history. Installed on the Cambodian throne by the Vietnamese, all Cambodian women were ordered to wear Vietnamese-style pyjamas and the market sold only Vietnamese food
oBwwR TIL that France suffered from demographic stagnation through the 19th century. While Germany and the UK increased their population by 60% and 54%, France grew only by 8%. If France had the same population growth as England, it's current population would've been over 150 million people.
9Z8p TIL kangaroo rats are so adapted to desert life that they can go their whole lives without a single drink of water.