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

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KOeL9 TIL Samuel L Jackson stuttered as a child. He "pretended to be other people who didn't stutter" to overcome it. He still uses the word "motherfucker" to get through a speech block as he still has days when he stutters
e0D14 TIL men receive sentences that are 63 percent higher, on average, than their female counterparts for the same crime.
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QJMoE TIL that in 1975 a cat was credited as a co-author of a physics paper, after Jack Hetherington accidentally used articles such as "we" and "our" in a study on atomic behavior. Unwilling to change the errors, he simply added his cat as a co-author, under the name "F.D.C. Willard"