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TIL kangaroos lack the ability to move backwards. For this reason, the Australian army features the animals on their uniforms.

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ADKV4 TIL Family Video still operates over 500 stores in the US and Canada. They own the real estate where their stores are located and they own all of the media they rent out so they keep all of the profits. This is why they were able to outlast other video rental businesses like Blockbuster.
VMVKm TIL German biologist Stefan Lanka, who believed that measles was a "psychosomatic illness", announced that he would pay 100,000 Euros to anyone who could prove that measles was a virus. German doctor David Barden proved him wrong and Lanka was ordered by the court to pay the money as promised.
Zpx0Q TIL that during war, buildings of cultural significance like museums or churches can be protected by placing a blue shield symbol which is internationally recognised.
eWWk TIL that a two toed sloth in 2001 was discovered hanging under a field research team’s latrine, scooping up the mixture of feces, urine and toilet paper and eating it.
6E9ll if the Sun were 'shut off', Earth's surface temperature would drop by a factor of two about every two months. The current mean temperature of the Earth's surface is about 27 °C / 81 °F. This means in two months the temperature would drop to -123 °C / -190 °F, and -189 °C / -324 °F in four months. So basically except some bacteria seem to be capable of surviving at extremely cold temperatures in space, we humans would die pretty quickly.