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TIL: Koalas have fingerprints so similar to humans that they can be mistaken for evidence at a crime scene.

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OGa96 TIL one of the earliest known account of Islam from a non-Islamic source is a manuscript called "The Teaching of Jacob" (634-640 AD) describing the conquest of Jerusalem by the Muslim army and mentioning a "prophet [who] had appeared, coming with the Saracens"
NK68 TIL of the US passenger airline, Baltia Airlines, which in it’s 27 years of existence has never flown a single commercial flight and claims to have been awaiting FAA approval since 1989.
5YJW8 TIL In 2016, more than half of all Americans forfeited vacation days, amounting to 206 million unused vacation days worth some $66.4 billion, and those employees who forfeit their vacation days do not perform as well as the ones who use all their time
YrxZ TIL Comedian Tom Green is also known as a Freestyle Rapper Known as “TG”
Wkd6d TIL that from the time Pluto was discovered until the time it was demoted from planethood, it still hadn't made one complete revolution around the sun.