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TIL Australia is the only continent with more venomous snakes than non-venomous ones

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Z8mNp TIL about Hanns Scharff, the most successful German Interrogator in WW2. He would not use torture, but rather walk with prisoners in the nearby woods and treat them like a friend. Through the desire to speak to anyone, the prisoners would say small parts of important Info.
Pljg TIL that tap water in Canada is held to a higher health standard than bottled water.
loJn7 TIL That before Norse settlers came to Iceland the Island was inhabited by Irish Christian Monks living in several scattered monasteries
ANNJn TIL of a fossil known as “Fighting Dinosaurs”. Preserved remains of a Protoceratops and a Velociraptor trapped in combat.
QNRdE TIL that in 1963, a cat named Felicette became the first and only cat to survive spaceflight.