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TIL of the Woylie, a small member of the Macropod family (Kangaroos, Wallabies etc). It's an adorable little creature that is sadly highly endangered right now though breeding efforts are underway worldwide.

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E1ONx TIL during WW2, Ernest Hemingway led a small Militia in a village outside Paris, and this caused him to be brought up on formal charges for violating the Geneva Convention "because a correspondent is not supposed to lead troops, even if he does it well."
69bMm TIL There are organisms that live off of acidic mine drainage, including at a highly toxic Superfund site.
m1p7p TIL that the line “ hey soul sister, ain’t that mr. mister” from Hey Soul Sister was in fact not train being a bad lyricist and repeating a word twice but the name of an actual band.
p8pBA TIL that Otto Lilienthal, a German aeronautical engineer, made 2,000 glider flights before the Wright Brothers made the first airplane. He died in a crash in 1896.
evrg TIL that in Iran, the US is the “Great Satan”, the USSR was the “Lesser Satan”, and Israel is the “Little Satan”.