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

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9YnaD TIL Gene Hackman was originally slated to play Mike Brady in ‘The Brady Bunch’.
R69j TIL that as part of the contract for appearing on Shark Tank, if you mention the name of any company you own then Shark Tank automatically owns 5% of that company or gets 2% of the lifetime profits. This is true whether the Sharks make a deal with that person or not, and prevents free advertising.
v1VNR TIL of Grigori Perelman, a Russian mathematician and the only person to have solved a Clay Millennium Prize problem for which he declined the $1 million prize. Grigori Perelman also declined mathematics' most prestigious award, the Fields Medal.
R5PB6 TIL Frito-Lay introduced fat free chips in 1998. Initially successful sales started to drop as some customers started to report abdominal pains, anal leakage and other symptoms after eating them. A warning label was added, but they were eventually discontinued in 2016.
E1O77 TIL of Mary Bell, an 11 year old serial killer with a tragic and abusive childhood that moulded her into the killer she became.