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TIL Koala bears can get Chlamydia!

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OG4rY TIL that in the 90s, Disney proposed a live-action version of Star Blazers (Space Battleship Yamato) using the USS Arizona as the main vessel instead of Yamato
pOAO TIL that a Gladiator sequel script had Maximus reincarnated by the Roman gods and returned to Rome to defend Christians against persecution; then transported to other periods including WWII, the Vietnam War, and finally being a general in the Pentagon. It was rejected for being too far-fetched.
e0dG4 TIL of Joey Deacon, a man with severe cerebral palsy who was introduced to the UK public in 1981 by tv show Blue Peter as part of the Year of the Disabled. His mannerisms started a craze of kids calling each other Joey Deacon when they’d done something stupid that lasted for years.
KWv4 TIL: Hummingbirds are constantly hours away from starving to death, only being able to store enough energy to survive overnight. Having the highest metabolic rate of animal kingdom, their heart can reach 1260 BPM and they’ll breath 250 times a minute at rest.
Y7mLd TIL in 1938, Chiang Kai-Shek caused the deadliest manmade flood in history when he intentionally broke the Yellow River dam. While he did succeed in his goal of slowing down the Japanese advance, it ended up killing 400,000-893,303 people in the process.