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TIL: There are now more than 100 wild wallabies living on the Isle of Man, between Great Britain & Ireland, after 2 of the Australian marsupials escaped from a wildlife park in the 1970s

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xVYp1 TIL that newborn baby girls can experience a "mini-period" due to the withdrawal from their mother's estrogen
LkWMp TIL: A man that was falsely imprisoned for 10 years spent most of his time studying law at the library and proving his innocence, later becoming a lawyer to help free other people who have been wrongly convicted.
OomM7 TIL Chester Cheetah wasn't the original mascot for Cheetos. Instead it was a mouse simply named the Cheetos Mouse, as it was decided a mouse would be the perfect pick since mice love cheese. It wasn't until 1986 when Chester Cheetah came along and Cheetos Mouse faded to obscurity.
06aL TIL Denying the Holocaust in Germany is a crime and can led offenders upto 5 years in jail
mxALP TIL Francis Crick who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of DNA was under the influence of LSD when he first made the discovery.