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TIL that hyenas give birth through their clitoris.

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e885 TIL That the heart of the Buddhist Monk, Thik Quan Duc, who burnt himself to death remained completely intact, even after he was later re-cremated for his funeral.
NXElE TIL that the Indemnity Ordinance gave legal immunity to people involved in the assassination of the Founding Father and Prime Minister of Bangladesh and his family. By the time the law was repealed, many of the people involved had fled the country and are still currently living as fugitives abroad.
j65mj TIL An endling is the last known individual of a particular species or subspecies. After the endling the species becomes extinct, never to walk the earth again. The first known use of the word endling occurred in an issue of the scientific journal Nature on April 4,1996.
78OwO TIL: The US State Department has a “Dissent Channel” that provides diplomats and other officials a way to formally criticize policy decisions and that it was only established in 1971
W7D64 TIL that in 1941, a 73 year old Nepali activist named Yogmaya Neupane led 67 of her followers—including women and children—in a mass suicide by jumping into a river to protest Nepal’s brutal dictatorship. None of their bodies were ever found.