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TIL Polio can be transmitted via ass-to-mouth

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R5RO1 TIL despite literally meaning "thousand feet" no species of millipede was known to have a thousand feet until a species discovered in 2020, named Eumillipes meaning "true thousand feet"
noPW TIL there are 9,823,546,661,905 ways to make change for a $100 bill.
jNMNQ TIL, the skin of a Honey Badger is tough enough to resist several machete blows and is almost impervious to arrows and spears
0wDAN TIL that the yapok is the only marsupial where both genders have a pouch. They are semi-aquatic. Females can make theirs watertight to protect young. Males store their testes in them when swimming to protect them from becoming tangled in vegetation
mkNy TIL that there is a British man named Sir Nicholas Winston who organized the rescue of 669 Jews from Czechoslovakia during the Second World War. He is still alive today at 105 years old and was dubbed the “British Schindler.”