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TIL: Biologists have observed a lizard lay eggs and give birth to live young in the same pregnancy for the first time.

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OoXo7 TIL Cyanide comes from bamboo
Z8deD TIL that while serving in the Mexican-American war, future U.S. president Ulysses S. Grant at the Battle of Monterrey hung off the side of the horse he was riding to use it as a shield while under sniper fire as the horse was still running.
p8VDN TIL of the 2009 Satellite Collision: the first time two satellites collided at hypervelocity
1oyd TIL the longest ever recorded sniper kill was shot from 2,475 meters or 1.54 miles away by British CoH Craig Harrison. The bullet took over 6 seconds to reach its target and fell about 400 feet.
6EJ4m TIL that the "short" in shortcrust pastry refers to how the fats in the dough stop the flour from forming long gluten proteins in any direction; puff pastry has glutens in layers between layers of fat, like lasagne sheets. Overwork it, and glutens are formed in all directions, making it tough!