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TIL Wallabies can have substance abuse problems. In fact, certain stoned, opiate loving wallabies are a big problem for parts of Australia.

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Br9PW TIL Buddy Holly proposed to his wife on their first date (her first date ever), and married 2 months later. 6 months later he died in a plane crash which she heard about on TV, and suffered a miscarriage. Due to this, the policy on when publicly releasing the name of the deceased was changed.
8adA4 TIL that Mariachi music is Mexican Polka.
l77K7 TIL of Sakoku, the foreign policy of the Tokugawa Shogunate, which forbade common Japanese citizens to leave the country for a period of 265 years.
b9v9Z TIL throughout its over 30 year run, Thomas & Friends has been narrated by celebrities such as Ringo Starr, George Carlin, Pierce Brosnan and Alec Baldwin.
Gmeg TIL that Tilly Smith, 10 years old British schoolgirl, saved her family and 100 other tourists from the 2004 Asian tsunami, by recognizing signs of tsunamis she had learned in a geography lesson two weeks before.