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TIL in Mandarin Chinese, the word for “kangaroo” translates literally to “bag rat”

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LQVb9 TIL: In 1962, a 10 year old found a radioactive capsule and took it home in his pocket and left it in a kitchen cabinet. He died 38 days later, his pregnant mom died 3 months after that, then his 2 year old sister a month later. The father survived, and only then did authorities found out why.
VMRWB TIL Robert Wagner is a person of interest in actress Natalie Wood's 1981 drowning death. The captain of the boat admitted that he lied to police & that Wood & Wagner had argued the night she drowned & that Wagner had prevented the captain from turning on the search lights & contacting authorities.
WpmN TIL that in the flag of Norway you can draw 5 other flags
ov6A TIL there is an Australian band called “The Beards”. Every single one of their 38 songs is about beards.
rRGEd TIL that the Dutch East India Company was the first company to ever go public on a stock exchange, raising enough capital to become a multinational conglomerate with over 70,000 employees. At it's peak, the company was worth 78 million Dutch guilders - equivalent to $7.4 trillion today.