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TIL Hyenas give birth through their clitoris.

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gZL8 TIL: in 1955, someone dropped a >600 year old plaster buddha statue… to discover the plaster was actually covering a solid gold statue.
rx4 TIL The first Director of the CIA admitted the existence of UFOs
wowmJ TIL Xi'an, the ancient city in the Northwest China that used to be the capital for many medieval Chinese dynasties (also appears in the Chinese classic "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"), has now a Muslim quarter and a sizable Muslim population. 3 percent of Chinese population are Muslims.
rNAX0 TIL about the US WWII unit known as the “Ghost Army,” a tactical deception unit made of ~1000 soldiers. They used visual, sonic, and radio deception to fool German forces into thinking they had 30,000 soldiers with them.
KOkr4 TIL that after a revolution that ended the monarchy in Portugal, the last King of Portugal lived the rest of his life exiled in Twickenham.