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TIL That a group of ferrets is known as a "Business"!

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rNlbw TIL West Indies is not a country but a group of islands containing 13 countries.
KONpG TIL Kazuhiko Torishima, editor of Dr. Slump and Dragon Ball, only started working at Shueisha (publisher of Weekly Shōnen Jump) because he wanted to work on Japanese Playboy. Torishima was disapointed when Shueisha started sending him boxes of manga as he had never worked with manga before.
grLKy TIL that echidnas lay eggs. They’re genetically close to platypus.
1aDQ4 TIL Polygamy was legal in Bavaria, Germany after the 30-years-war. The war killed so many people - the population dropped from 16 million to 4 million - that in 1650 a law in Bavaria allowed men to marry up to 10 wives.
Brpy TIL that the sudden feeling of falling that occurs occasionally when one dozes off is actually a mild epileptic seizure and has been suggested to be connected with déjà vu.