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TIL Moose and elk have been known to get drunk on frozen and slightly fermented apples and commit shenanigans such as breaking into shoe stores and getting stuck in trees.

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JYNJB TIL that in 1969, Woodstock ran out of food after its first day and relied upon donations from the largely conservative residents of Sullivan County, New York to feed 400,000 hungry hippies
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