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TIL that a male brown antechinus mates with as many females as possible for up to 14 hours at a time. Unfortunately, the effort usually crashes his immune system and ultimately kills him.

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59r8 TIL that the name “Pakistan” was devised in 1933 as the acronym for: Punjab, Afghan, Kashmir, Sindh, and BalochiSTAN. Also, in Farsi and Urdu, “Pak” means “clean” and “-stan” means country
VLeG TIL that in Finland, traffic fines are proportionate to the latest available data on an offender’s income. In October 2001, Anssi Vanjoki (at the time a director at Nokia) was ordered to pay a fine of 116,000 euros after being caught driving at 75 km/h in a 50km/h zone.
xK95 TIL if you throw a banana in front of a colony of bees they get really pissed off, because the pheromone that makes bees agitated is the same compound that makes bananas taste like bananas.