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TIL quokkas don’t throw their babies at predators like the rumors said. Instead, the mothers will make their kids lay writhing and hissing on the ground to attract predators (while they escape)

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x6Bmo TIL the two largest annual jazz festivals in the world are held in Montreal and Montreux
OLvY TIL that, according to Article VIII of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, you can be arrested for a crime committed anywhere in the known universe
lor8a TIL In the 20th century India lost more than 95% of its vulture population. The deaths are due to a medication for cows that is poisonous to the birds. The loss of vultures had increased the spread of disease and vermin populations. Also Parsi sky burials have had to be cancelled.
RBQa TIL the British successfully destroyed a Nazi drydock by ramming a ship filled with six tons of explosives into it, leaving the ship wedged in the gates until the timers detonated the explosives.
R5N9j TIL the first recorded use of suicide bombs in warfare was actually during the 1937 Battle of Shanghai and 1938 Battle of Taierzhuang with three instances of Chinese Nationalist soldiers destroying invading Japanese tanks and infantry platoons by strapping explosive grenade belts to themselves