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TIL a male Kangaroo is called a boomer.

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PYvMO TIL the 1987 Remembrance Day bombing in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland which killed 10 civilians including elderly attendees was met with such condemnation the IRA apologised for the attack, disbanded the unit responsible and admitted it had made a mistake.
1alv4 TIL that the French general that lost the battle of Trafalgar, was found dead a year later in a French hotel with six stab wounds in his left lung and one in his heart. His death was ruled a suicide. This verdict was heavily mocked by contemporary British press.
X0Y1r TIL that various bizarre and occasionally offensive messages are encoded in The New Tetris, which was released in 1999 for the Nintendo 64.
Y7M0G TIL that Rwanda’s population fo lions was destroyed in the aftermath of the 1994 Genocide as national parks were turned into camps for displaced people and the remaining animals were poisoned by cattle herders
vPNb4 TIL that in 1860 New Mexico was by far the most populous of the 7 U.S. territories, and yet was last to be given statehood.