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TIL that there are just under twice as many kangaroos as humans in Australia

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d8D57 TIL there is a literary subgenre of Christian fiction featuring Amish characters, but written and read mostly by evangelical Christian women. It is called "Amish Romance."
Yx7G TIL that while Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon, Buzz Aldrin was the first man to pee on the moon.
GYJEj TIL a Scottish teen's mother had been nagging him for weeks to clean his bedroom. When Ryan Kitching finally cleaned his room, he found 12 old lottery tickets in a drawer; one of them was a winner for £52,981.
ZgJB TIL that in Europe, 92% of expecting parents terminate pregnancy upon receiving a Down Syndrome diagnosis. In America, 67%.
GAYyG TIL NASA estimates that Voyager 1 will have enough power to continue communicating until 2025, 48 years after its launch. Its fuel for running the communications equipment, plutonium-238 dioxide, will have decayed too much to generate the required heat to keep them operating.