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xVZkw TIL that the platypus uses its bill to navigate underwater, detect food, and dig. The bill contains receptors that help detect prey.
e09aJ TIL India is the world’s largest milk producer, with 22 percent of global production, followed by the United States of America, China, Pakistan and Brazil
yVDDM TIL that an object you were observing can disappear beyond the event horizon the point of no return around a black hole.
VpmG TIL Liberia was established by citizens of the United States as a colony for former African American slaves and their free black descendants.
6ExEW TIL before the mass marketing of tobacco, lung cancer was so rare that doctors took special notice when confronted with a case, thinking it a once-in-a-lifetime oddity.