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TIL kangaroos don’t fart.

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oRnnR TIL that Houdini, the escape artist, worked as a spy for Scotland Yard. In the early 1900s, he infiltrated and spied on the German police, sending reports back to a British spymaster named William Melville. In exchange, Melville made sure that Houdini's career as an entertainer took off in London.
QvO6 TIL WWII Japan killed 4 million more people than the Nazis, practiced Mengele-like human experimentation, cannibalized and tortured POWs, and forced women into military sex slavery
kOWag TIL one of the directors of the Japanese adult toy company Tenga is also masturbate-a-thon champion and has the world record for "longest time spent masturbating".
74vX TIL that Jim Crow-era “Literacy Tests” were frequently not even legitimate tests of reading skills but instead were a series of incredibly confusing trick questions such as “Print the word vote upside down, but in the correct order.”
rNQV0 TIL Marquette, Michigan (a city in the upper peninsula) closes its road every night in the spring to allow migratory blue-spotted salamanders to cross safely