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TIL that that platypus has no stomach

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KOJPw TIL in 1998, Disney's copyright on Pluto, set to expire in 2003, was extended by the passage of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. Sonny Bono was an American singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and congressman who came to fame in partnership with his second wife Cher.
VMGl4 TIL about Ghost Stories, an anime that did so poorly in Japan they gave the American dub free reign to do whatever they wanted and the voice over team went nuts.
aw0P9 TIL flow is the mental state in which a person is completely absorbed in an activity, resulting in a loss of their sense of space and time.
v1yPB TIL of patient S.M, a female with a rare genetic disease leading to an inability to experience fear in her life. Additionally she experiences little negative emotion and has no sense of personal space; experiencing no discomfort standing nose to nose with strangers whilst making direct eye contact.
v1nV7 TIL that in order to build one of the largest dams east of the Mississippi, the US forcibly displaced at least 600 Native American families from their homes, and then built on the fertile “reservation” land.