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TIL of the kangaroo mouse that lives in the Nevada desert. It can go its entire life without drinking as they can get all the fluid it needs from the seeds and grain it eats

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r9Gy TIL Blood On The Dance Floor had to cancel a tour in Australia after only selling 6 tickets
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7vgZ TIL a Russian immigrant to NY in the 1920s, Lillian Alling was so homesick that she resolved to walk home to Siberia. She walked an estimated 5000 miles in 3 years, serving a few months in jail for vagrancy in Canada, and was last sighted on the banks of the Bering Strait.
b90W9 TIL: Medieval scribes would frequently scribble complaints in the margins of books as they copied them, as their work was so tedious. Recorded complaints range from “As the harbor is welcome to the sailor, so is the last line to the scribe.”, to “Oh, my hand.” and, "A curse on thee, O pen!"
ra5e TIL that a German U-boat sunk in 1945 was raised in 1957 and returned to service.