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TIL that kangaroos have 3 vaginas

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4kEBa TIL, Christopher Lee, who played Count Dooku in Star Wars, also had a minor career in heavy metal music.
Br0Md TIL Diabetes UK, one of the major UK diabetes charities, was founded by science fiction writer HG Wells.
On6g TIL in 1885, a man was to be hanged for murder in England. After 3 attempts to hang him all failed, his sentence was commuted to life in prison. He was eventually released and died an old man in Wisconsin in 1945.
PYVoe TIL of Norilsk, the world's northernmost city with over 100,000 habitants, where soil polution is so intense corporations could just start mining it instead of the ore deposits. Temperatures there often reach bellow -25°C (-13°F).
lE6a TIL A South Korean subway driver told passengers to remain inside while a fire was spreading in the station. He then fled with the master key leaving the train doors closed and sealing passengers inside. Out of 198 people who died in the station, 79 were trapped in his train.