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TIL that Wombat Poop is cube-shaped.

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p8W7G TIL of the "Returning Soldier Effect" where more male babies than female babies were born after both World Wars in almost all belligerent countries. Reason: unknown.
b6XVN TIL about the Doll's Head Trail in Atlanta today. It's known for its eerie collection of doll heads and body parts
8e9N8 TIL after a Taliban fighter shot down an American CH-47D Chinook, he boasted about it over his radio. Signals Intelligence identified the caller, and within two days, an F-16, a C-130, and two Apache Gunships used their combined firepower to kill him and five others.
e0Yx6 TIL: Nazis offered Iron Cross for 4 Finnish Jews during WW2. None accepted. For example, Leo Skurnik was awarded Iron Cross for evacuating a German soldier under enemy fire. Major Skurnik told the Germans that Skurnik would "wipe his arse with the medal."
JE0v TIL the government sent a vegan mayonnaise company a warning letter stating that their product did not meet the legal definition of mayonnaise.