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TIL the first koalas to live outside of Australia were named Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, and arrived at the San Diego Zoo in 1925

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rReGx TIL that Diegetic music in a film or TV programme is part of the action and can be heard by the characters (car radio, night-club scene...), rather than being just for the people watching to hear, which is called non-diegetic sounds.
wo5o TIL Discovery’s ‘How It’s Made’ visually described ~1000 items’ manufacturing process.
xV7mg TIL locusts are not a species. They are actually grasshoppers which have developed gregarious characteristics in suitable environmental conditions forming an organized group
LGLv TIL in 2002 a few NASA interns stole nearly all of the moon rocks collected from all Apollo missions, then had sex on them
xjd5 TIL in 1983 Redondo Beach, CA passed a resolution to adopt a new Official Bird. They chose the Goodyear Blimp.