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TIL that Fire Departments don't actually help get your cat out of trees

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9WZD TIL there are only 5 people still alive who were born in the 19th Century
W79yN TIL male kangaroos have two penises that sit below the balls, females have 3 vaginas, and in the process of trying to find out why/ how this works, I learned echidnas have 4 penises but only 2 can get hard at once (wtf even is nature!?)
VBnyG TIL that during WW2, the US also confined people with German and Italian ancestry (many who had US citizenship).
4wWb TIL learned that in the 1790s, the Guillotine was so popular, they made child sized one for kids to behead their dolls and rodents, and the wealthy had tiny ones on their dining table, for slicing bread.
VMXxG TIL when Republican senator, Jesse Helms submitted a 300 page packet to the Senate alleging Martin Luther King Jr. had ties to Communists in an effort to oppose establishing MLK Day, Democratic senator, Daniel Moyniham responded to the "packet of filth" by stomping on it in front of the Senate.