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TIL Male kangaroos have been known to give themselves blowjobs and female porcupines have been witnessed using wooden sticks as dildoes

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gro6L TIL After hurricane Katrina Brad Pitt set up the Make It Right Foundation to build homes for those effected. The project had famous architects but the homes were not designed or constructed for a New Orleans environment. By 2022 only 6 of the 109 houses were deemed to be in "reasonably good shape."
VMN0p TIL that Tim Burton made a tribute short stop-motion film for my distant ancestor Vincent Price, who also narrated it.
e0B64 TIL that Generation Y is making 20% less than Baby Boomers were at the same age
4Xvm6 TIL that Physicist Ted Taylor was the first person to light a cigarette using a nuclear bomb. During a bomb test in 1952, he used a parabolic mirror to concentrate the light of the blast enough to heat a cigarette suspended from a tiny wire.
b9WLp TIL the first border wall in the US was in NYC in 1625, back then Dutch colony: New Amsterdam. To keep the Indians out. On the tip of Manhattan. Now it's called Wall Street.