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TIL that there are wild Wallabies on the Isle of Man

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kJVpm TIL in the 1960s Australian researchers brought four VW Beetles to Antarctica as their main mode of transportation across the barren frozen continent.
g4jW TIL I learned the Village People didn’t create the YMCA dance. The group was clapping above their head during a performance and the audience thought they were making a “Y” and continued by forming the rest of the letters The band just rolled with it and included it in the rest of their performances.
x6EE1 TIL that Webster's Third, basis of the current Merriam-Webster Dictionary, was widely criticized when published in 1961 for condoning the use of "ain't" among other permissive changes
J1Jd8 TIL Germany’s Goettingen State University Library seeks to house everything printed in 70 Siberian and Arctic languages. In Siberia there are nearly zero publications in these languages because so many of the minority languages are nearly dead
eEab TIL American fathers can be imprisoned for not having enough money to pay for their children