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TIL There’s no word for a group of Koalas because they are solitary animals

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Ngve TIL Brach’s sells enough candy corn each year to circle the earth 4.25 times if the kernels were laid end to end.
1kyd TIL a WWII Congressman publicly mentioned that US submarines escaped typically shallow Japanese depth charges, likely leading the Japanese to adjust and sink 10 additional subs and 800 service men.
KOdlR TIL that during the American Civil War, banker J.P. Morgan bought five thousand rifles from an army arsenal at $3.50 each, which were then resold to a field general for $22 each.
9w4pM TIL Schabziger, known in the USA/Canada as Sapsago, is a Swiss herb-green cheese from Glarus. A 1463 law marked it as Switzerland's oldest branded product, protected by the first documented trademark.
kkXm TIL Pretty people activate the reward centers of our brains. Shared brain regions judge both attractiveness and goodness. The insular cortex, associated with disgust, pain and punishment, is activated by both viewing unattractive people and by judging people to be of bad moral character. Ugly hurts.