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Eg4p0 Today I learned that baby kangaroos come out of their mother’s cloaca with a size of a jelly bean and then climb six inches into their mothers pouch in order to grow.
gMWEy TIL in 1988, Cosmopolitan magazine ran an article stating that women had no chance of contracting HIV from sex with a man because HIV could not be transmitted in the missionary position
eNKD TIL in 2006, a Walmart in Canada, following a bomb threat, forced it’s employees to help police search the store for the bomb.
GYoxj TIL that in July 2012 an unusually large and strong release of magnetized plasma from the Sun missed the Earth by around nine days. The strength of the eruption was comparable to the 1859 Carrington event that caused damage to electric equipment (mostly telegraph stations) worldwide.
5Vm5k TIL about Taft–Hartley Act. Taft–Hartley Act is a United States federal law that restricts the activities and power of labor unions. It was enacted by the 80th United States Congress over the veto of President Harry S. Truman, becoming law on June 23, 1947.