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TIL female Crocodiles can produce offspring asexually, without the need for fertilisation from a male

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Y7xaG TIL Author Paek Nam-nyong is a household name in North Korea and his bestseller novel "Friend" became the first state-sanctioned novel available to English readers
NJgE TIL of the existence of “Ring galaxies” - galaxies in which the majority of stars and gas coalesce in a donut-like shape around the center, in contrast to the typical galaxy in which stars and gas coalesce at the center itself.
R57J4 TIL The Saturday morning cartoon Dungeons and Dragons finished with a cliffhanger and was cancelled. Some fans interviewed the writer Michael Reeves, got the finale script, used series animations, and one original actor to recreate what should have been the final episode.
0g0L TIL that 57 Regiment doesn´t exist in Turkish army because almost every single one of them died when they were ordered “to die” in Gallipolli war. Turks believe that such men as those could never, by mere humans, be replaced.
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