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TIL newly born baby koalas eat their mothers poop.

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p8kRO TIL in 2014, New York City had $16 Million in unpaid parking tickets from foreign diplomats. The largest offender was Egypt, with about $1.9 Million. Diplomatic immunity is the main reason that those tickets remained outstanding.
gMOrD TIL of Laura Bridgman, the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language, fifty years before the more famous Helen Keller. Boston, Massachusetts, c. 1845.
KJXB TIL that once an Icelandic horse leaves Iceland, it can never return.
RXV1 TIL the the Civil War cost 620,000 American lives, more than this country’s other wars combined, from the Revolution through Vietnam. That was about 2% of the population; if it happened now, historians estimate, the equivalent number of dead would total 6 million.
8ae0G TIL Winston Churchill Avenue is the only road to get from Spain to Gibraltar, and drivers must pass straight through runway 09/27 at Gibraltar International Airport. Similar to a railroad crossing, the road is temporarily closed when airplanes are coming to land.