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TIL that kookaburras are also known as laughing jackasses

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W7GK4 TIL that most of the ski slope maps in North America were painted by one man, James Niehues
R6o9 TIL the “father of chemical warfare”, Fritz Haber, a Jew, pioneered many poisonous gasses for warfare use in WW1. He had family members killed in concentration camps by the same gasses.
OoZEX TIL when King George V was near death in 1936, his doctor injected him with, "750mg of morphine and a gram of cocaine – enough to kill him twice over – in order to ease [his] suffering, and to have him expire in time for the printing presses of the Times, which rolled at midnight."
Zk7Y TIL: a 13 yr old who made a Braille printer out of Legos after discovering that millions of blind people in developing countries buy Braille devices that cost $2K and weigh 20 lbs. His prints Braille from computers to paper using raised dots instead of ink, weighs a few lbs, and costs only $350.
p8J8 TIL that 9-banded armadillos always give birth to identical quadruplets.