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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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pYxZN TIL that the word "commonwealth" is is an English transliteration of Latin "respublica" which in turn is the root word of the word "republic", as well as the Polish transliterated "Rzeczpospolita"
95dG TIL that Google made a detailed, interactive map of the galaxy in HTML5, just to see if they could.
BgMlK TIL that in year 2000, 41 million dollars was spent to promote the new Sacagawea golden dollar. Television ads consisted of the head of George Washington superimposed upon a body, voiced by actor Michael Keaton, discussing the merits of the new dollar coin. The coin ended up being a failure.
0dw6R TIL about the Banquet of Blood, an 8th century banquet during which the Abbasids wiped out 80 members of the preceding Umayyads. The dying and dead were covered with a leather carpet and the meal proceeded.
epKpk TIL of all the volcanoes on earth, on average one erupts every week