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TIL that the UK has an invasive population of wallabies in the wild.

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J1Y0v TIL that of the 48 million Americans with hearing loss, only 1% or 500,000 use sign language
ljd7 TIL of Félix Carbajal, a Cuban Olympic marathon runner in 1904, who ran in cut-off trousers, a long-sleeve shirt and a beret. He stopped to eat some apples, got stomach cramps, had a nap, then kept running, to place fourth. The winner, Thomas Hicks, used brandy and rat poison to assist his victory.
9OEp TIL that Antonio Buehler was arrested and assaulted by the Austin PD for taking pictures of a police officer abusing a woman during a DUI arrest
JYG68 TIL Ajay V. Bhatt, an Indian-born American computer architect who led the Intel team that invented the USB (Universal Serial Bus), regrets not making it reversible. It would have doubled the cost, which was a hard sell at the time, "[b]ut in hindsight, we blew it." He holds 132 patents and counting.
oXjK TIL a man drove over 600 miles to listen to the Cubs win the World Series on his fathers grave. Keeping his word on a promise made decades ago