... that Jacques Cousteau invented scuba gear while in the French resistance during WWII. Cousteau was born in Saint Andre de Cubzac, Gironde, France on June 11, 1910. Cousteau graduated from the French naval academy in 1929, and headed for aviation school. A near-fatal car accident, however, prevented him from graduating from aviation school and may have saved his life- only one other student from his class survived the opening weeks of WWII. The scuba gear he designed allowed divers to lay mines against their own ships, preventing disabled ships from falling into enemy hands.
... that the male platypus is the Oone of very few poisonous mammals- it has a spur on its back foot from which it delivers a very painful venom.
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