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TIL koalas are the only non-primates with fingerprints.

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yGav TIL Chattanooga, Tennessee has broadband internet that is 200 times faster than the national average in the US.
M7Kd8 TIL Segregation academies are private, mostly Christian, schools founded after Brown v. Board of Education to prevent white children from having to go to school with black children. Many remain open today.
gMKE8 TIL that Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the International Olympic Committee, won an Olympic gold medal for himself in 1912 - with a poem. 'Ode to Sport' won in the category for literature. Previous Olympic events also included architecture, music, painting and sculpture, until 1948.
GANQ1 TIL of Steve Leech, a milkman who was doing his rounds when he saw a shop on fire. He used 320 pints of milk to put out the fire, saving 7 other stores. He received the award for "Hero Milkman of the Millennium"
e0gdJ TIL The US postal service has a law enforcement arm made up of officers who carry firearms and have arresting powers