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TIL Peanuts premiered on this day 62 years ago.

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N7r4E TIL that the scientists who first discovered the platypus thought it was fake. Although indigenous Aboriginal people already knew of the creature, European scientists assumed an egg-laying, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed, venomous mammal had to be an elaborate hoax.
VpOp TIL that Detroit had 2,123 instances of violent crime per 100,000 residents in 2013 and remains America’s most dangerous city
REJ4 TIL Glitter can cause blindness.
kONo4 TIL at the peak of the financial crisis of 2008 Volkswagen became the most valuable company in the world for one day despite being on the brink of bankruptcy
QJ66 TIL hog-nosed snakes will feign death by rolling on their back, and when rolled upright will roll back again as if to insist they’re really dead.