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TIL Female Kangaroos have 3 vaginas.

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ERj7 TIL a guy from Sweden rode his bicycle to Nepal, climbed Everest alone without Sherpas or bottled oxygen, then cycled back to Sweden again.
JgKl TIL caffeine makes you more open-minded to viewpoints that contradict your own
p8Y0O TIL about Skateistan, an organization that helps street kids in developing countries by teaching them how to skateboard.
0d8kN TIL: in 1933 Western Australia voted to leave the Australian federation. On the same day as the referendum they voted in a pro stay state government and secession never happened.
pKmZ TIL in the early 1900s Wagner von Jauregg treated syphilis patients with malaria (winning the Nobel Prize). The patients developed malaria, causing a severe fever and killed the syphilis bacteria. Then given the malaria drug quinine and cured. This was used until the development of penicillin