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TIL there was a craze for emu meat in the early 90s and that a pair of emus sold for as high as $60,000 dollars before the market crashed.

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5YN4B TIL in 2016 a man fatally stabbed 19 people and injured 26 others (most in their sleep) at a care home in Japan in an attempt to advocate the euthanasia of disabled people
1677O TIL that New Hampshire's AA minor league baseball team was initially going to be called the New Hampshire Primaries and have a logo of a donkey and an elephant side by side, but local fans disliked it so much that the team held a name contest and instead became the New Hampshire Fisher Cats
d8On9 TIL that in 427BC Athens sent a ship to Mytilene which had instructions to kill all adult men in the city-state. The next day, Athenians voted to change their decision - a second ship was dispatched. Racing through the night, it reached Mytilene just in time to prevent the massacre from happening.
4XAAX TIL for the first Harry Potter film, some scenes were filmed twice, with the actors saying 'Philosopher's Stone' for the UK version and 'Sorcerer's Stone' for the US version.
erv6 TIL that in the Siberian wilderness lives a woman named Agafia Laikov, a 70 old woman who is the last survivor of a ultra orthodox sect that fled Stalins prosecution and had no contact with outsiders for 40 years, not hearing about world war2 until the 1980’s