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TIL A Platypus is one of the few mammals to produce venom.
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TIL that in Kosovo, boys are sometimes given the name Tonibler in honor of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair due to his role in the 1999 NATO air campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War
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TIL: Designed by Benjamin Franklin, the first official American Cent was inscribed with the words “Mind Your Business”
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TIL that Bessie Coleman was not only the first African-American woman to hold a pilot's licence, but also the first Native American to do so.
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TIL about Patrick's Pub and Grill, a bar that's split in half on the border of Georgia and Tennessee. What's even stranger is that the Georgia half is in a "dry county", meaning that any alcohol purchased on the Tennessee side cannot be brought to the Georgia side - all within the same restaurant.
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TIL that the purpose of the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast" was to help young girls accept arranged marriages.