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TIL that opossums not only eat lots of deer ticks, but they are also resistant to venomous snake bites.

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86OL TIL Rosa Parks was not the first black person to be arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat, and far from being a diminutive seamstress, Parks was a political organizer and activist, a member of the Montgomery Voters League and secretary of the local chapter of the NAACP
xWgo TIL A designer of the Titanic was on board when it sank. His original design included features such as a double hull, more water-tight compartments, and twice as many lifeboats but they were overruled. He spent his last moments trying to evacuate passengers, and his body was never recovered.
5Jd9 TIL that Canada Post has assigned postal code H0H 0H0 to the North Pole.
QNJxa TIL the average house cat can hit a top speed of around 30 miles per hour
WkKGN Today I learned about the Driftless Area; a rugged area of Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and a minor part of Illinois that was completely missed by glaciers. It is roughly the size of West Virginia, and is home to huge bluffs, deep canyons, and rare species of plants found no where else.