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TIL that Australia had an “emu war” in which machine guns and artillery was used.

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e0aM4 TIL the Banana flavor of candy isn’t fake. It is based on the taste of a type of banana that went nearly extinct in the 1950s.
R7Blw TIL In the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) the ship Cotopaxi was discovered in the Gobi desert, presumably left there by Aliens. At that time the ship was believed to have been lost in the Bermuda Triangle in 1925, but was discovered in 1985 in Florida, and not verified until 2020.
5YBxp The inside of a banana peel is a great all-natural shoe shiner.
wl1 TIL the first recorded Jello shots (made with champagne) were made in Napoleon Bonaparte’s kitchens.
Do8j TIL to annoy his captors, an American POW in North Korea would pretend every day that he was riding around on an invisible motorcycle until eventually, his captors “confiscated” the motorcycle and stated that it was “against the rules and regulations.”