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TIL Toxoplasmosis, a disease spread by cats and mostly harmless to humans, is a deadly disease to kangaroos

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ne0Wb TIL that in the past 20 years there has been 250,000,00 votes cast by mail-in vote and only 0.000006% were considered fraud (143 over 20 years)
ZyyG TIL two hikers lost for days were saved after finding the abandoned gear of a man who had vanished 1 year prior, to the exact day. They used the matches in the pack to light a signal fire.
O9mg TIL that a woman without a vagina performed oral sex, got in a knife fight, and was impregnated when the sperm passed from her stomach to her uterus. This was in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
8aWMV TIL Gary Larson apologized for the Far Side strip Hell's Video Store; it has nothing but copies of Ishtar. After seeing Ishtar he said "There are so many cartoons for which I should probably write an apology, but this is the only one which compels me to do so."
BgmPD TIL that Archie Comics Jughead Jones' iconic "crown" is actually a style of hat known as a whoopee cap. Made of a fedora with the brim cut and folded upwards, it was a style of hat popular in the mid-20th century. Youths often decorated their caps with buttons or bottlecaps, as seen in Jughead's cap