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TIL the supermarket chain Publix has never laid off an employee

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mmOv TIL the Lamborghini driven by Bruce Wayne in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy is a Murciélago. Murciélago is Spanish for “bat.”
Brp4b TIL - When researchers from the University of Washington trapped and banded crows for an experiment, they wore caveman masks to hide their their identities. They could walk freely in the area without masks, but if they donned the masks again, the crows remembered them as evil and dive-bombed them.
Zo9o TIL The platypus is actually not the only surviving member of its biological family. There is a small hedgehog like spiked ant-eater called a “Echidna” that is the only other surviving member of the same biological order. It is also the only other surviving mammal that lays eggs.
7ryJO TIL during WW2, the US Navy had two freshwater aircraft carriers on the Great Lakes to train its pilots
XEXDD TIL that a rogue artist drew a penis on a rock in the animated children’s series “Maya the Bee"