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TIL Opossum’s are the only marsupial found in North America. From eating snakes they posses a resistant to rattlesnake, cottonmouth and pit viper venom.

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drAB TIL a group of unpaid volunteers travels around Detroit mowing and cleaning neglected parks. They call themselves “the mower gang”.
LkPBd TIL THE world's two largest standing Buddhas - one of them 165ft high - were blown up by the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001. After failing to destroy the 1,700-year-old sandstone statues of Buddha with anti-aircraft and tank fire, the Taliban brought a Lorryload of dynamite from Kabul.
gMBEy TIL that the Apollo 11 astronauts signed applications to Travelers Insurance Company for space travel accident insurance for their mission to the moon. The policies would insure against accidents but also against "disease endemic to the lunar surface or its environs".
pY4G TIL for the first time in 24 years, climate change wasn’t even mentioned once in any of the three presidential debates
GlN5 TIL that wild bananas have seeds, and the ones we commonly find in supermarkets are sterile clones of a mutant banana plant found in 1836.