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TIL that a group of kangaroos is called a mob. This collective noun perfectly captures the sometimes chaotic and rowdy nature of these marsupials.

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7r0MM TIL the ponds that are common in residential neighborhoods are not installed as water features, they’re actually retention basins used to offset the drainage capacity of the ground removed by paving roads and building houses
PenV TIL there is a village in the Netherlands comprised entirely of people with dementia. It’s been called a “Truman Show for the elderly.”
9w0LG TIL Timor-Leste is the most Christian country in the world. Over 99.5% of its 1.4 million people identify as Christians.
JYrJl TIL that Napoleon used to fight with one of his classmates at the Military Academy of Paris (Sidney Smith). Then at 1799 during the Siege of Acre Sidney Smith meet Napoleon again but now in battlefield, where Napoleon was defeated.
KOkE6 TIL that, despite being widely panned by critics and audiences, Roger Ebert actually gave the film "The Happening" by M. Night Shyamalan a 3 star rating, even going so far as to call it "too thoughtful for the summer action season"!