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TIL, if an animal on a Malaysian postage stamp is nocturnal, it's eyes will glow.

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lMXa TIL there are approximately three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor, worth billions in value and treasure.
b96v7 TIL that the US and UK directly interfered with Australian independence, effectively eliminating George Withlam, an advocate who opposed nuclear testing who was democratically elected, with a political coup to install John Kerr in 1975.
woM9W TIL The Ancient Greeks had a type of cup that was intentionally shaped like a woman's breast. It even had a "nipple" on the bottom! Experts are unsure exactly what the purpose of them was, but some seem to have been left as offerings to gods linked to childbirth and child rearing.
4k1dw TIL it’s yin not ying
lkZa TIL Mary (mother of Jesus) is considered one of the greatest women in Islam, and is mentioned more in the Quran than in the New testament.