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TIL, in Australia, kangaroos kill more people than sharks.
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TIL The first US woman astronaut was also the first known LGBT astronaut
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TIL that a massive gas leak at a chemical plant in Bhopal, India in 1984 killed thousands of people n the surrounding town overnight and is considered the world’s worst industrial disaster
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TIL that during WWII Australian soldiers in Egypt adopted a local dog as their unofficial mascot. “Horrie the Wog Dog” would follow them through various campaigns, warning them of approaching enemy aircraft. After the war he was successfully smuggled back to Australia in defiance of quarantine laws.
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TIL there was a bridge in southern Hungary that was found to still be rigged with dynamite from World War II…in October of 1999.
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TiL The most common ingredient in bacterial soap is triclosan. It is never completely removed during water treatment and when it arrives at the ocean it is toxic to marine life.