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Today I learned that baby kangaroos come out of their mother’s cloaca with a size of a jelly bean and then climb six inches into their mothers pouch in order to grow.

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m1m5o TIL the pajamas that we wear today actually have a story behind it. Because during World War I air raids in England, people began donning pajamas rather than nightgowns so they would be ready to sprint outside in broad daylight and still would look presentable.
QJrWM TIL that the largest terrestrial animal of Antartica is Belgica antartica - a small flightless midge that burrows into snow to survive the harsh temperatures.
ERpp TIL Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh who is worth around $840 million lives in a trailer in Las Vegas with a pet Alpaca
jDKn TIL during the 1964 Presidential election Fact magazine polled psychiatrists about the mental competence of Barry Goldwater. Goldwater successfully sued and as a result the psychiatric community created the Goldwater rule to prevent them from diagnosing people they haven’t personally examined
1ynr TIL that actor Alan Rickman, who portrayed Snape in the Harry Potter films, knew the full story of the character from the very beginning. When he was asked by directors why he delivered lines certain ways he would say that he “knew something they didn’t.”