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TIL The USA is one of the last countries that hasn’t combined Boy and Girl Scouts.

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1aWoV TIL newborns are "obligate nose breathers" meaning that they can only breathe through their nose for the first few months of their life.
ZWnR TIL that North American Beavers cannot breed with European Beavers, and that the result of more than 27 attempts was a single stillborn kit.
0wZbR TIL that there was a store at Walt Disney World called "Jessica's" that only sold Jessica Rabbit merchandise
d848 TIL cats may have been domesticated 12,000 years because in the shift from hunter/gatherers to agricultural civ, the influx of mice led to wild cats coming to live near their prey.
Meo60 TIL that in 1975, three men were wrongfully convicted of murder. Their conviction was solely based on the testimony of a 12-year-old boy who claimed he’d seen them commit the crime. They were only fully exonerated in 2014, when the boy- now an adult, recanted his testimony.