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TIL that koala bears survive off of eucalyptus by eating their mom’s feces first

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YllA TIL: An individual who who hadn’t washed in several years hosted two species of so-called extremophile bacteria, that typically thrive in ice caps and thermal vents, in his/her belly button.
mx97E TIL in 2014 a group of civilian 'technoarchaeologists' operating from a former McDonald's contacted an abandoned 35 year old NASA solar satellite and took control of it, before a lack of fuel pressure derailed their plan to return the space probe to its original parking space at Lagrange point L1.
mW9O TIL that “The Safety Dance” is a protest against bouncers stopping dancers pogoing to 1980s new wave music in clubs when disco was dying and new wave was up and coming.
NJXP TIL of a quarantined leper colony in Hawaii that, when the patients were cured, was made into an independent county where the patients could stay as residents. To this day no one under the age of 16 is allowed in, and the only visits allowed are officially sanctioned tours.
rXyW TIL that there is a species of pig called “Mangalitsa” which has wool on it which resembles that of a sheep