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TIL that a species of lizard in Australia is currently evolving from laying eggs to live birth.

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agVy TIL An anecdote has it that when Philip II sent a message to Sparta saying “If I enter Laconia, I will raze Sparta”, the Spartans responded with the single, terse reply: “If.”
yQVPX TIL that Michael Stevens of Vsauce uploaded his first video under the username 'pooplicker888'
wok6 TIL Mt. Everest has 3G coverage
p8Eae TIL that “cooties” originally was WWI soldiers’ slang for body lice that infested the trenches, before it evolved into a children’s game of contagion that even includes “inoculation” via a ball point pen and a rhyme, which emerged after the polio vaccine became common.
mx9JR TIL the only person to die playing baseball is Ray Chapman in 1920 at age 29; he was hit by a pitch and died 12 hours later. His death helped lead to the ban on spitballs after the season and requiring umpires to replace dirty balls. It helped lead to the use of batting helmets albeit 30 years later