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TIL a male Kangaroo is called a boomer.

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rMy0 TIL In 1996, Mary Tyler Moore offered a restaurant $1,000 to sell her a 65 year-old lobster so she could return it to the wild. Rush Limbaugh then offered $2,000 to eat the lobster. The restaurant denied both offers and kept the lobster as a mascot.
awaNo TIL when JFK was only 3 years old, his father Joseph Kennedy narrowly escaped the infamous 1920 Wall Street bombing planned by a group of anarchists who used a wagon full of lead weights as a bomb. The explosion killed 38 bystanders, however, Kennedy was thrown unharmed to the ground.
4XaDb TIL if you can compress the earth into the size of a ping pong ball, it became a black hole.
97k6 TIL of Horseshoe Theory - A poli sci theory that asserts the extreme left and extreme right are closely related, creating a horseshoe-shaped, rather than linear political spectrum.
woVbJ TIL that after abolishing slavery in 1794, France reinstated it in 1802, only finally to abolish it again in 1848.