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TIL that a population of feral wallabies is on the loose in England. The animals, native to Australia, have been spotted dozens of times in recent years and originally escaped from zoos that were poorly maintained following WWII.

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4VAb TIL: A species of mouse howls at the moon and eats scorpions!
XRZj TIL John McGroarty, a former Congressman from California, wrote a letter to a constituent in 1934 and said “One of the countless drawbacks of being in Congress is that I am compelled to receive impertinent letters from a jackass like you…Will you please take two running jumps and go to hell.”
PgNG TIL: Cashews are also a fruit, and there is only a single nut per fruit. Apparently the Cashew apple is really tasty.
QJ1Ea TIL that the first thing ever sold on the net was weed, sold by Stanford students to counterparts in MIT
5VdJR TIL that the scientific definition of a Kilogram uses the Planck constant(which gives the relationship between energy/mass and frequency of a photon) in its formula. Pg131