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TIL Koalas can ask people for water when its hot.

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9bdr TIL of a man named Simon Bunce who was arrested for buying child porn online, and lost his job and family over it, only to be revealed that someone in Indonesia hacked his credit card.
x64Vb TIL Dolphins name each other, and call each other by name.
xL4g TIL Andy Warhol was close friends John Lennon and Yoko Ono for years and obscure photos were taken of the three together. They were so close, that Yoko spoke at Andy’s funeral in 1987.
4vZb TIL that 1 in 10 chess games ended in a draw in 1850. Today, 1 in 3 chess games end in a draw.
Vjvp TIL that ZZ Top guitarists Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill, were once offered $1 million by Gillette to cut off their facial hair. They said “The prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film…a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.”