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TIL the testicles of a male kangaroo hang above its penis. Females have three vaginas.

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yQp9w TIL lyricist Lorenz Hart, who wrote many famous hits including Blue Moon ,The Lady Is a tramp, and My Funny Valentine, hated himself & died of pneumonia from exposure in 1943, after drinking heavily
wJD1 TIL that Agent Scully was immortal by the end of the ‘X-Files’ series.
W7QbY TIL the first successful insanity plea in the US was in 1859 by congressman and future Civil War general Daniel Sickles for the murder of his wife’s lover, US District Attorney Phillip Key (the son of Francis Scott Key).
epZ6n TIL that the day before 9/11, a Canadian named Evan Kuz, visited the World Trade Center with a young woman he met. He stayed at the WTC before the observation deck was closed and was the last to go up before 9/11. He donated his stub to the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in 2009.
jNlJa TIL Benford's Law dictates that any number occurring in nature (such as the speed of light or the length of a river) is more likely to start with 1 than any other number. There's a 30% chance it will start with 1, and the probability of it being any number from 2 through 9 decreases exponentially.