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TIL that a newly hatched Echidna is so tiny and underdeveloped that you can actually see the milk in its stomach because its skin is nearly transparent.

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pKAQ TIL that the 4th crusade, which intended to capture Jerusalem, never arrived at its intended target but instead took a detour and sacked Constantinople, the largest and wealthiest christian city in the world.
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