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TIL Kangaroo and wallabies have 3 vaginas and 2 uterus.

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neOr9 TIL while studying Madagascar periwinkle leaves used as folk remedy for diabetes in the 1950s, scientists found plummeting white blood cells instead and isolated out vinblastine and vincristine — effective chemotherapy drugs which has dramatically improved survival in leukemia patients.
1aX7d TIL that many inventions credited to Thomas Edison were in fact stolen from other inventors. Edison ruthlessly patented inventions from other inventors so he could claim them as his own work.
yQgNa TIL that Sir Robert Walpole, who led the government of Great Britain for twenty-one years from 1721 to 1742, was the first British Prime Minister; he is also the longest serving Prime Minister of the country.
xVM5k TIL since the 1950s, every baseball in an MLB game has to be rubbed with mud harvested from a secret location, and the same family has been doing it for three generations
LkyX0 TIL that the annual 72,500 roubles rent that USA payed for the ambassadors house in Moscow was equal to 3 dollars in 2001 post-soviet inflation value. Since the US-Soviet contract didn't provide for currency fluctuations, USA argued that the rent should stay fixed.