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TIL: No One Can Stop You from Owning a Kangaroo in Three US States! Freedom Baby!

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4o4g TIL: ‘Kanye North’ and 'Kanye South’ are both parliamentary constituencies in Botswana.
1vJX TIL that comedian Louis C.K. is a Mexican Jew raised in Mexico City until the age of seven, Spanish is his first language, and he still retains a Mexican citizenship.
Q4Mk TIL The world’s tallest man ever, Robert Wadlow (8ft 11 inches), was placed in a concrete vault after he died becasue his family feared someone would steal his blood
9w1dM TIL that the initial title of Alien was Star Beast. Its writer disliked it and changed it to Alien after noting the number of times that the word appeared in the script. The writer and his cowriter liked the new title's simplicity and its double meaning as both a noun and an adjective.
0lXM TIL that Ted Lindsay - one of the greatest players in NHL history - refused to attend his own Hall of Fame ceremony because women weren’t allowed to attend. The league changed the rules to allow women the following year.