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TIL that dingoes were brought to Australia by humans around 4,000 years ago, and are actually an ancient breed of domestic dog

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kJwmW TIL : The Blue Angels do not wear G-suits despite performing high-G manoeuvres as it would hinder their ability to execute their delicate choreography in the sky
GYl7 TIL there’s an Immortality Drive on the I.S.S. that has the DNA sequence of Stephen Colbert
VMRJ8 TIL that armadillos can cross streams or rivers either by inflating their intestines to float or by simply holding their breath and walking across the bottom.
OGxM4 TIL of Ada Blackjack, an Iñupiat woman who lived for two years, 8 months of those years alone, as a castaway on the uninhabited Wrangel Island. She survived by learning to hunt foxes, build boats, and sew parkas out of reindeer skin.
xOBk TIL a lawyer was trying to prove, in a murder trial, that someone shot themselves, accidentally. While the lawyer was reenacting it he accidentally shot himself and died. He proved his point and the defendant was acquitted, only to be shot himself a few years later.