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TIL Cassowaries are the largest native vertebrate in the Australian rainforests! And a bonus: Sept 26 is World Cassowary Day!

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NX4YE TIL that India has a very rare river shark called the Ganges River Shark, which only has 240 individuals left in the world.
VBBGp TIL in 2012 a woman high on crystal meth set fire to a Swamp Cyprus tree estimated to be 3,500 years old. The tree, nicknamed The Senator, formed part of a public park where people could admire the living treasure. It did not survive the fire.
VOmm TIL Russia and Pakistan are connected by the longest ocean going straight line in the world. You can travel the 20,000 mile journey without turning.
WbOB TIL Gilbert Gottfried was fired from voicing the Aflac duck after he tweeted out a series of jokes about the earthquake disaster of Japan in 2011. Aflac does 75% of its business in Japan.
EoEP TIL that an acre is the amount of land that can be plowed by a pair of oxen in one day.