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TIL that male antechinus, a small Australian marsupial, engage in marathon mating sessions lasting up to 14 hours, after which they die due to stress-induced immune system collapse

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0dW0A TIL that firefighters in Denver need to pass a polygraph test or be disqualified from the testing process
6EreQ TIL that in 1856 two steam powered trains collided head on causing an explosion that was heard 5 miles away. Despite a 10 car passenger train carrying nearly 1,500 people, there were less then 200 people killed or injured.
PY0ow TIL that when he was 15, Stan Lee entered a high school essay competition held by the New York Herald Tribune, and he won for 3 straight weeks until the newspaper wrote him and asked him to let someone else win. Later, the newspaper said he should look into writing professionally
P1AnJ TIL a potato chip called The Whole Shabang was made for American prisons. The chips, described as a combination of salt & vinegar and BBQ, were so popular among ex-inmates that a gray market sprung up to get them out of prisons. The manufacturer finally started selling them to the public in 2016.
Xak TIL that, although a Rubik’s cube is advertised as having merely billions of permutations, the actual number is 43,252,003,274,489,856,000.