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TIL that emu and red kangaroo are depicted on Australian Coat of Arms, because they cannot move backwards easily. Rather it symbolises nation moving forward.

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7r07 TIL nearly 60% of American college students are female; every state but Utah has more women than men in college
p891A TIL that in 1898 doctors began to suspect that smoking caused lung cancer, despite the fact that there were only 140 published cases of the then rare disease in 1900
wLYMM TIL that on September 11th, 2001, Officer John Perry of the NYPD went to headquarters to file retirement paperwork. When he heard the explosion at the world trade center he immediately responded and was later killed when one of the towers collapsed. He was the only off-duty officer killed on 9/11.
8ajKP TIL the deadliest animal on Earth is the mosquito and they kill around 725,000 people annually. Humans are the second deadliest, killing 475,000 and they are followed by snakes with 50,000 and dogs with 25,000. On the other end of the spectrum sharks only kill about 10 people annually.
OaLa TIL: The sex offenders registries are being watered down by people who just needed to go #1 real bad