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TIL that koalas feed their offsprings with poop, when the joeys’ digestive tract is still underdeveloped.

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VonD TIL The film ‘Fantasia’ came about after the ambitious Walt Disney overspent on short The Sorcerer’s Apprentice by hiring revered conductor Leopold Stokowski to handle the score. Rather than writing off the debt, Disney decided to spend more by making a whole feature.
b68Ka TIL Robert Redford does not watch his own movies once he is done filming.
rNWd4 TIL that as a 26 yo law student, Michael Avenatti played a large role in a scheme to media-shame Pepsi into giving away a Harrier jet. He was described as someone who "steps over the line as a human being" by one co-conspirator.
5VOnQ TIL About a mysterious sonar ping discovered near the titanic and that has been recently discovered to be a volcanic reef abundant in life
jN45j TIL that the German city of Augsburg was given a colony in present-day Venezuela called Klein-Venedig in the 1500s when the Habsburg emperor couldn't repay a loan back in cash