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TIL Koala bears can get Chlamydia!

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xVMJ5 TIL of a Gravity Hill where a car in neutral will appear to roll up a hill, however, it is down to the surrounding landscape producing an optical illusion making the slight downhill appear to be an uphill.
5YdZk TIL jazz violinist Joe Venuti, known for practical jokes, once called every double bass player in the New York phonebook, asking them to meet with him on a street corner; over 50 arrived with their instruments, creating a minor roadblock. Venuti later had to pay them all, as mandated by the AFM.
oBx4r TIL McDonald's did away with their spoon-shaped coffee stirrers because people were using them as cocaine spoons.
PYaGG TIL straight plastic bag bans implemented in Chicago and Hawaii resulted in many stores just upping the thickness of their plastic bags to 2.25 mils to cross the threshold that separates “single-use” plastic from “reusable” plastic bags under many bag laws.
XEVgR TIL Grizzly bears' muscles suffer no atrophy despite months of inactivity in hibernation; scientists discovered that non-essential amino acids (NEAAs) regulated by particular grizzly bear muscle proteins allowed muscle growth during inactivity.