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TIL that in Sydney Australia snipers are deployed to protect colonies of little penguins from predators

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b90aN TIL that Mexico City started making a parade on 'Día de muertos' (Day of the dead) inspired by the scenes shown on James Bond movie Spectre where the agent is chasing down a villain during the holiday. Prior to the movie, this event did not exist
gBV8 TIL in 2014, scientists created Vantablack, a substance made from carbon nanotubes, which absorbs 99.965% of radiation in the visible spectrum making it the blackest substance known.
arpJ TIL Argentina and Chile are the only two countries you can “Dig to China” from.
kOxwd TIL that John Mulaney started drinking at 13 years old and that the psychiatrist his parents made him go see as a teenager once described him as “one part nice kid, one part gorilla that wants to kill the other half.”
ybdw TIL that the German word, Schnapsidee (liquor-idea) is a term for a plan one hatches when drunk, or a plan so stupid that you think it must have come from a drunken mind