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TIL that opossums only live two years...

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ADWM4 TIL that many decorative glass crystal products (e.g. decanters, wine glasses, etc.) contain lead at significant enough levels that liquids stored in them for more than a few hours are no longer safe to drink (or any length of time for children).
X0XkQ TIL Cassowaries are the largest native vertebrate in the Australian rainforests! And a bonus: Sept 26 is World Cassowary Day!
BoOW TIL that in the past, to treat an arrow wound cleanly, one would push the arrow through to the other side of the body
RRG1 TIL that it took Rubik a month to solve his own creation (“Who Created the Rubik’s Cube?” Paragraph 3)
VBVAB TIL the Dutch word "Swaffelen" (meaning to hit an object or person with one's penis, often repeatedly) won 2008 word of the year in the Netherlands and Belgium.