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TIL that Koalas have fingerprints so similar to humans that if unknowingly checked by a forensic scientist they wouldn't even know that they weren't human prints.

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6Eg9w TIL Nat sec advisor Brzezinski was woken at 3am by a call telling him Russia launched 250 ICBMs at the U. S. Minutes later, he received another call: The early-warning system actually showed 2,000 inbound missiles. As he began to phone the president, he received a third call: It was a false alarm.
5YkGR TIL Krusty the Clown from the Simpsons was originally intended to be Homer in disguise, which explains why they look so similar.
oxeL TIL that in ancient Rome during funerals, a person called an Archimime would walk behind the deceased and imitate the person like they were still alive.
v1Vo7 TIL that any Canadian citizen, who has lived in the Yukon for at least one year, can get free land from the government, provided they are willing to farm it.
j61kv TIL In certain situations (the conditions of which are still up for debate) warm water has been observed to freeze faster than cold water, as the result of what is known as the Mpemba effect. These observations go far back enough to be traced to claims by ancient philosopher Aristotle.