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TIL kangaroos testicles are above their penis

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WobX TIL Jeanne Calment met van Gogh at the age of ten, started fencing at the age of 85, was bicycling at the age of 100 and died 122 years old. She also smoked for 96 years and is quoted saying: “I’ve never had but one wrinkle, and I’m sitting on it.”
xVEB1 TIL The eldest son of Genghis Khan, Jochi, may not have been his. Khan's first wife was kidnapped and found 8 months later, pregnant. Khan treated him as his own, but doubt in legitimacy led to Ögedei as the heir.
Kw4G TIL that cats have scent glands on their face that release a pheromone when they rub onto us to say that they are ours, and we are theirs.
PYp9e TIL: There is a forensic database containing tens of thousands of shoe impressions. It is used to match footprints at crime scenes to specific makes of shoe. It's name? Solemate.
0wQXR TIL that Moscow has more people than Berlin, Madrid, Paris, and Rome combined.