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TIL Marsupials are originally from South America, not Australia.

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oBkWr TIL Morgan Freeman wears gold earrings based on an old sailors tradition. They were earrings in order to cover their burial in a forgein land
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1aLa7 TIL "The father of modern chemistry", Antoine Lavoisier, was accused of defrauding the French government and convicted to be executed via guillotine. His judge responded to the appeal to save his life by saying, "The Republic needs neither scholars nor chemists."
R0o6 TIL: If you write your alphabet letters in a single stroke (without lifting your pen), you’re infringing on Xerox’s patented unistroke alphabet. They have won lawsuits over it in the past.
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