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TIL the original "Echidna" was not an egg-laying mammal, but a legendary half-woman half-snake who was the mother of several Greek monsters, including the Hydra, Sphinx, Chimera, and Cerberus.

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VM8wk TIL of Sleep Paralysis, where your body temporarily paralyses itself so that you're unable to move or speak during a lucid dream. It's possible to wake up while still being paralyzed, resulting in hallucination - seeing, hearing, feeling, or smelling something that isn't actually present
Xo7X TIL a 39 year old man brutally murdered his mother when she forgot to get him concert tickets to see Avril Lavigne
r5Rw TIL that the largest cave in the world, which houses a rain forest in its largest chamber, wasn’t discovered until 1991, and wasn’t explored until 2009.
P18we TIL more of Africa’s surface area is north of the equator than south of the equator
pXGG TIL inside NASA’s Juno probe, it has a plaque dedicated to Galileo with writing in his own hand, and 3 Lego mini figures (Galileo, the Roman god Jupiter, and his sister and wife, the goddess Juno) specially made by the Lego Company using aluminum.