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TIL of the pig-footed bandicoot, an Australian marsupial with hooved feet that went extinct in the 1950s.

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5VJNQ TIL Ada Lovelace, early pioneer of computing and talented mathematician was the daughter of famed poet Lord Byron.
oBgA TIL in 1984, to prove to people that leprosy is difficult to catch through close contact, Pope John Paul II kissed a number of lepers in a South Korean leper colony.
oBw8W TIL - it's now possible to see what the Hubble telescope caught on the day of your birthday. Mine was Ceres, the largest known object in the asteroid belt, also a dwarf planet. Amidst what is happening on earth right now, please don't forget to look up the night sky.
MeXGA TIL that, until recently, the Houston, TX police department regularly used Whataburger order numbers to mark crime scenes.
gMR7A TIL That the Goodwill will refuse to take your old office chair, bean bags, or box spring mattresses