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TIL that spiny rats can break off their tails when attacked.

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gMLm7 TIL about the "Mad Hatterpillar" Uraba lugens, the gum-leaf skeletoniser, Nicknamed the mad hatterpillar because of its distinctive exoskeletal feature. Every time it sheds the head portion of its exoskeleton, stays attached creating a stack of increasingly large heads!
7EMZ TIL in a deleted scene from The Truman Show (1998), the show’s director described a plan to have a female actress seduce Truman into conceiving a child on air, then they’d create a parallel show to follow that child’s life.
D1p7g TIL about Jonathan, a turtoise who was hatched in the 1830’s and is still alive today
lov11 TIL in 1850 Milk in New York was so contaminated that caused 8000 infants deaths in just one year.
l7va7 TIL Daewoo made not only cars but guns too