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TIL that echidnas lay eggs. They’re genetically close to platypus.

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xVg90 TIL, what a horrifying place the world is.
5YaRp TIL the term "parking" (a car) comes from when Washington, DC built roadside parks on city streets. Owners would tie their horses to the trees to rest in the shade, and the practice stuck as cars took over
ob48 TIL if you are lost in the bush, 99% of the time you’ll walk in big circles as big as 1km. The human body will always walk to one side of something (trees in this case) and favour that side every time, unless you’re aware of this fault. There’s also a science to it.
mxdko TIL after civil rights leader Rosa Parks was robbed and assaulted in 1994, Little Caesers' founder Mike Ilich paid her rent every month until she died in 2005.
eVrn TIL In late 1918, A British Soldier Serving in France encountered a wounded German Corporal in No Mans Land, and raised his rifle to shoot him. The two men caught eyes, and nodded, than the British Private lowered his rifle, and let the German go. That German soldier was Adolf Hitler.