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TIL USA police wont pursue fugatives if they escape from thier state, its documented to have happened over 100,000 times

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DxaY TIL that the koala population of Australia is at serious risk of extinction, in part due to over half the population being infected with chlamydia
W6Gd TIL On a late-November evening in 1987, two Chicago television stations were victims of a broadcast signal takeover. This is the video that aired
KYL5B TIL the "crinkle crankle" single-layer brick walls frequently seen throughout England aren't just a wacky artistic design, rather they provide the same structural stability as a two-layer brick wall but without the extra bricks.
LwLm TIL that the reason for Yogi Bear’s collar is that it allowed animators to keep his body static, redrawing only his head in each frame when he spoke — a method that reduced the number of drawings needed for a seven-minute cartoon from around 14,000 to around 2,000
8ymb TIL there is a Canadian cartel which controls roughly 70% of the world’s maple syrup production. It allocates production, sets prices, and maintains a strategic reserve of 40 million pounds of syrup to protect against market fluctuations.