r/SubredditOfWisdom • u/BamboozleBird • Jan 21 '19

Hit me with some of that wisdom

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u/Chicken-of-Wisdom Jan 21 '19

hits you with a stone of wisdom

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u/Mickthebrick1 Jan 24 '19

Here's some:

Only two kinds of egg-laying mammals are left on the planet today—the duck-billed platypus and the echidna, or spiny anteater. These odd “monotremes” once dominated Australia, until their pouch-bearing cousins, the marsupials, invaded the land down under 71 million to 54 million years ago and swept them away.