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TIL a group of wombats are called a wisdom.

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WkA5L TIL that a city in California elected a dog as its mayor since it didn't have enough people that lived there to have actual human politicians.
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xR8w TIL that WWII inspired Karl Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance, which states that if a society is tolerant without limit, their ability to be tolerant will eventually be seized or destroyed by the intolerant.
a8NLy TIL It's physically impossible to sink entirely in quicksand
xVQE1 TIL Operation Rimon 20, on July 30, 1970, the Israel Air Force (IAF) drew the Soviet expeditionary force in Egypt into a perfectly planned and executed ambush, shooting down five MiG-21 fighters with no losses for the Israeli Mirage-IIIs and Phantom F-4s.