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TIL that Wilma Flintstone was the first animated character to be depicted as being pregnant

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78pKL TIL that actor Federico Castelluccio, who played Furio on The Sopranos, is also an art expert who discovered a misidentified Renaissance painting worth perhaps $10 million more than the $140,000 he paid for it.
9YG8m TIL I learned that catfish can breathe partly through their butts -- and maybe we can too. So can loaches (a type of freshwater fish) and orb-weaving spiders, and apparently also mice, rats, and pigs. (Bonus: So can some turtles.)
xE6k TIL The Arabic word for hamster roughly translates as “Mr Saddlebags”.
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