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TIL that Koala’s have the lowest brain to body mass of any mammal which means they are not very intelligent, for example, they can on eat Eucalypitus on branches but if you place the leaves on a plate, they would not be smart enough to know it is food and eat it.

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L4DQ TIL Massachusetts passed laws requiring children to be educated by the 1640s and informally required children to be taught to read and write from its founding. Mississippi, on the other hand, was the last state to create compulsory education laws, and didn’t require school attendance until 1918.
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