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

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jwVE TIL that composer Hans Zimmer has never had any formal music training.
4X6Dw TIL Wadi-al-Salam, the world's largest graveyard, covers 1500 acres, sees 350 burials a day and contains 5 million bodies.
WkeGo TIL In the ancient Roman city of Puteoli there was an octopus that would sneak into kitchens through the sewer and eat pickled fish.
pYGgQ TIL that Robert Oppenheimer's Interim Committee advised the American government not to warn Hiroshima's civilians of the impending atomic bomb. He was nervous that the bomb may not detonate properly, and also felt that a lack of warning would create a greater panic among Japanese leadership.
9YrWG TIL - Michael Schumacher donated $10m in aid after the Indian Ocean Tsunami. This surpassed the amount given by any other individual, sports team/league, corporation, and even some countries. Schumacher's bodyguard Burkhard Cramer, and Cramer's two sons, were killed in the tsunami.