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TIL Quokkas don't really throw their babies at predators

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97VD TIL in Chile, the the act of not wearing underwear has been called “to go gringo-style” (andar a lo gringo)
O9yY TIL that the London Underground has its own implementation of the KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System), where the platforms are actually uphill from the surrounding track, so that the Kinetic Energy is turned into Gravitational Potential Energy, and recovered when the train leaves the station.
dDDx7 TIL there are 11 emerging megaregions in the US, with the fastest growing being the Piedmont Atlantic megalopolis, stretching from Birmingham, through Atlanta, up to Raleigh-Durham.
JnZ8 TIL it’s called WD-40 because it took the rocket engineers 40 attemts to get the ‘Water Displacement’ formula to work.
X0076 TIL that of the 57 people who died during the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens in 1980, only 6 were in areas authorities had noted as danger areas. 51 of them including an entire family, died while in sections that had been considered safe for camping and recreation.