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TIL Kangaroo and wallabies have 3 vaginas and 2 uterus.

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0dZ1A TIL that emergency and civil defense sirens are called such because an early model could make sound underwater, like the seaborn sirens of Greek mythology
QNDlE TIL the observance of daylight savings time results in over a 6% increase in suicides and overdoses immediately after the spring observation
GANl1 TIL on October 2 1990, a hijacked Boeing 737 sideswiped a Boeing 707 and then collided into a Boeing 757 at China’s former Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport. It resulted in 128 people being killed and the Captain of the 707 getting injured.
x65Do TIL First act of sexual intercourse ‘was done sideways, square-dance style’
VMjkQ TIL that in Germany they have installed these "Stolpersteins" (stumbling blocks), that have the biographical information of the victims of the Nazis. Their intent is to remind people of the victims of their Nazi past in a manner that does not glorify those events.