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TIL of Betteridge’s law of headlines, which states that any headline that ends with a question mark can be answered with the word no.

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d0L9 TIL Yesterday, some Russians got the day off to procreate, in celebration of the annual “Day of Conception”. Couples that give birth exactly nine months later get a prize:
P1gbL TIL female platypuses don't have nipples, instead, they concentrate milk around the stomach and feed their young by sweating it out
GAkg4 TIL Dogs sniff at a rate of 5 sniffs per second, the same rate as when they pant.
wLgrE TIL On the list of celebrity plane crashes in the last 20 years, Harrison Ford is the only one who has been in more than one. He's been in 4.
PYQ9e TIL that after hearing Is This It by The Strokes, The Killers scrapped nearly all the songs they were working on, with the only exception being "Mr. Brightside"