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TIL when pursued, kangaroos will retreat to bodies of water. So they can hold their pursuer under and drown them.

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4K05 TIL in the Netherlands, citizens with disabilities receive public money to pay for sexual services up to 12 times a year
RmV8 TIL the audio levels in recorded music have increased since the early 1990s with many experts saying it leads to reduced sound quality and listener enjoyment. This is known as the “Loudness War”.
P10GE TIL Unlike the majority of the US, Delaware was once a Swedish colony called New Sweden, established during the Thirty Years' War. Settlements were established in present-day Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. New Sweden existed from 1638 to 1655 before being conquered by the Dutch
VMgZD TIL Steve Jobs insisted on buying iOS engineer Steve Forstall lunch with his employee badge. When Forstall protested, Jobs replied 'No, no, no. This is great. I only get paid $1 a year. I don't know who's paying every time I badge.'
WkyK8 TIL no alarms went off on the day of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion because they'd been disabled to spare workers from being woken up by false alarms.