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TIL Armadillos can jump 3-4 feet in the air when startled

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j6jXp TIL that Australia’s Mount Wingen has been burning for 6,000 years. A lightning strike or brush fire ignited a coal seam there around 4000 B.C., and it’s been smoldering ever since.
eKEk TIL there are rainbow mountains in China that have formed as the result of 24 million years of multicolored sandstone pressed together.
Wkym4 TIL that North Korea still owes Sweden €300million for 1000 stolen Volvos 40 years ago
vPEYr TIL although the U.S. Code says that burning is the preferred method to dispose of a Flag, people also do so via flag burial.
XK6R TIL there was a children’s concentration camp in Croatia during World War II where nearly 4,000 children died out of 6,600 total child prisoners.