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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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5V1vn TIL 'Gunners Palace' (2004) a documentary that contains 42 uses of "fuck" and its derivatives, holds the the record for the most ever in a PG-13 film.
Edop TIL that the character of Lennie Small from “Of Mice and Men” is used as the standard for legal mental retardation for executing a prisoner in Texas. If a person appears smarter than Lennie Small in an interview then he may be executed. If he does not then he cannot understand his crime.
OoVXe TIL that in Doctor Strange, a dancer called Jayfunk coreographed all the magic incantation movements used by the characters in the film, using finger tutting
YpbLd TIL that a chunk of Tissint meteorite, a Martian meteorite that crashed in Morocco in 2011, is worth 10 times the price of gold, at prices ranging from $8,500 to $28,350 per ounce.
b6WZ4 TIL that the candy marshmallow was originally made from the plant marsh mallow