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wodMM TIL many Olympic athletes are either broke or working 9–to-5 jobs outside of their training.
e0wnL TIL that the inventor of Vaseline believed in the medicinal properties of the product he ate a spoonful of it everyday. He lived to be 96.
Z8jMa TIL about the Rambutan, a hairy fruit, appropriately called the hair fruit in Malay and the messy hair fruit in Vietnamese.
nMdB TIL the first animal to ask an existential question was from a parrot named Alex. He asked what color he was, and learned that it was “grey”. (pdf)
mnox TIL that Koala’s have the lowest brain to body mass of any mammal which means they are not very intelligent, for example, they can on eat Eucalypitus on branches but if you place the leaves on a plate, they would not be smart enough to know it is food and eat it.