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TIL: An inventor has created a Rubik's Cube that solves itself.

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dYr TIL Princess Marie Bonaparte, great-grandniece to Napoleon, discovered that the closer a woman’s clitoris is to her vagina, the easier she will orgasm. She later had her clitoris surgically moved, though it was unsuccessful.
16wlV TIL hippo skin naturally secretes anti-bacterial sunscreen. It's red and sometimes called "blood sweat", though it is neither blood nor sweat.
p897p TIL: Benito Mussolini ruled constitutionally for 3 years before he dropped all pretense of democracy and set up a dictatorship
kOPPm TIL there are two birth anomalies - superfecundation (twins with separate fathers) and chimerism (absorbed twins), that if combined, will create a single human with two biological fathers.
6EJWw TIL that Platypus DNA is a mixture of bird, reptilian, and mammal. They have no stomachs, have hips like a reptile, and have electrical receptors on their face like a shark that help them sense prey. They have no nipples because milk leaks out onto their fur which young lap straight off the body.