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TIL Belgium is the world’s largest kangaroo meat importer. Sad part is that they’re taken down quiet cruelly: “Each year, about 1.6 million kangaroos are hunted and killed in particularly cruel conditions.”

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WwEN TIL there is a common amoeba found in warm bodies of freshwater, and if insufflated (snorted) deeply into your sinus cavity, will begin to eat your optical nerve, move to your brain and eat that as well. Oh, and it has a fatality rate higher then the Ebola virus and the Bubonic plague.
m1vYP TIL that if South Korea enters a state of war, its army becomes subordinated to a US Army general from the Combined Forces Command, not the President or another Korean.
ANgmn TIL approximately 3% of the population has experienced psychosis
b0KQ TIL that every time you buy a Red Stripe you support the Jamaica national bobsled team
1aVyr TIL Michael Humphreys, the man who played the role of the young Forrest Gump, joined the US Army in 2004 and has completed an 18-month deployment in Iraq. While in the Army, he was given the nickname "Gump" by his fellow soldiers.