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TIL that that platypus has no stomach

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gro5A TIL Mel Blanc, while having a career almost entirely with Warner Brothers, had two Disney voice rolls: A few hiccups for the mute character Gideon the Cat in Pinocchio (1940), as well as voicing his Looney Tunes characters in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
E1PRp TIL that chickens are omnivorous and will eat from grass to insects to large rodents, even each other if they get too hungry.
ZpV1Y TIL the first true reservoir was built on the Nile.
no4b TIL Queen’s collaboration with David Bowie on ‘Under Pressure’ wasn’t planned - Bowie just happened to be by the studio while Queen were recording the song.
16wM7 TIL the mother of the last Comanche chief was a white woman who was kidnapped at age 9 & assimilated into the tribe. She later married a chieftain & bore him 3 children before she was found at age 33 & returned to her bio-family. She never accepted white society & committed suicide by starvation.