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TIL that Teflon (PTFE) is the only substance that a gecko cannot climb.

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WRr9 TIL that more and more researchers are arguing that BMI is not a good measure of healthy body weight.
YpBQP TIL that Platypuses don’t have nipples... Despite being mammals and having mammary glands platypuses do not have nipples with which to fed their babies. Instead they release milk through glands like sweat. The milk then gathers in grooves on the mum’s abdomen where the puggles lap it up..
Vgr0 TIL Rocco Siffredi, an Italian porn star, made a commercial for potato chips in which he says “I’ve tried a lot of potatoes, but none are as good as these.” The Italian word for potato is a euphemism for vagina.
gM1XX TIL Antarctica has a fire department because fire poses a serious threat to the researchers there. Antartica is dry, windy, and doesn't have a lot of liquid water to douse the flame with.
71Gp TIL of an Italian named Fabrizio Quattrocchi who yelled “I’ll show you how an Italian dies!” while trying to remove his hood before being executed by his Iraqi kidnappers.