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TIL There’s over a dozen species of kangaroo that live in trees.

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8aoGP TIL about El Caganer, literally translating to The Pooper, a popular addition to the nativity scene in the Catalonia region of Spain that depicts a peasant pooping in the background.
69EYw TIL Walter Ortmann from Brazil holds the Guinness World Record for longest career working in a same company which is 84 years. His age is now 100.
AD984 TIL that A 'kangaroo word' is a word that contains the letters of its own synonym, in order, like MAscuLinE, ChOCOlAte, cHickEN. And a double kangaroo word has two joey words, like Containter for CAN and TIN
GrNE TIL Drug trials done by Pfizer without parent consent in the 2000’s resulted in child deaths in Nigeria, and when the attorney general of Nigeria went after Pfizer they hired PI’s to coerce him into dropping all charges
gM49b TIL That widespread, angry protests targeting returning Vietnam veterans are largely an urban myth aimed at dividing veterans and other anti-war protesters.