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TIL when a kangaroo feels threatened that it will go into chest deep water and wait. Should the assailant be so ignorant to follow, the kangaroo will snatch you up with it’s little half arms and drown you mafia style.

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78kwL TIL in 1991, the last of California's manual telephone switchboards, which used pull and plug cords, was being replaced with computerized equipment. Most phone companies had replaced them in the 1950s but the owner of Kerman Telephone Company stalled because he did not want to lay off any operators
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