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

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R7aEl TIl John Milton was totally blind during the composition of his ten-thousand-line epic poem Paradise Lost. Every morning he would have verses already prepared in his head for his aide to take dicatation. If the aide was late, Milton would complain, saying 'I want to be milked'
GAPRE TIL: In the 15th century, an engineer named Orban offered to build a huge cannon for Constantinople. After they turned him down, he offered his services to the Ottomans who then used his cannon to attack Constantinople.
MegDm TIL that 150 people die each year from falling coconuts, compared to 5 a year from shark attacks. One newspaper in Australia dubbed coconuts "the killer fruit."
WkaLo TIL that wolves get 7 hours of sleep on average per day, while mice get 14.5.
Y9ad TIL Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica contained a simple calculation error that went unnoticed for 300 years.