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TIL compared to their overall weight, koalas have among of the smallest brains of any animal. They are so dumb that they cannot identify leaves as food and refuse to consume them when they are placed on a flat surface as opposed to branches.

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xGZD TIL of Zarif Khan, an Afghan man who came to Sheridan, WY in 1909 and began peddling tamales. By 1915, he acquired the nickname Hot Tamale Louie and opened a restaurant, Louie’s. In addition to his food, Khan was also famous for serving any customer, regardless of race, profession, or social class.
bpwa TIL Author J K Rowling wrote the final chapter of the last Harry Potter book in ‘something like 1990’, seven years before the release of the first book.
5VR0r TIL the revolution that brought about fall of Communism in Czechoslovakia was triggered by the killing of Martin Šmíd, a student at the University of Prague who was killed during a police raid on a student demonstration on November 17, 1989. Šmíd, however, wasn't real.
8LPX TIL Blackbeard was remarkably judicious in his use of force. In dozens of eyewitness accounts, there is not a single instance in which he killed anyone prior to his final, fatal battle with the Royal Navy. “I haven’t seen a single piece of evidence that Blackbeard ever used violence against anyone.”
9YjBM TIL that during the scrapping of the SS Great Eastern in 1890, the body of one of the original builders was found inside the double hull-he had gone missing in 1853.