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TIL: James Joyce has love letters considered so vulgar to this day no publisher will print them.

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mxAo TIL There is a verifiable population of kangaroos living in the wild in the township of Émancé, about an hour outside of Paris.[2] The kangaroos are descended from a breeding population which escaped during a botched burglary attempt at an animal park in the 1970s.
x6Pbo TIL about an American singer named, Orion. His voice was similar to Elvis Presley's, a fact which he and his record company played upon, making some believe that some of his recordings were by Presley, or even that Presley had not died in 1977.
xjwg TIL that the tumbling tumbleweed (Kali tragus), a long standing symbol of the lonely American West, is actually a foreign introduced species from Asia commonly called ‘Russian thistle’.
kOg4B TIL that the USSR successfully used a 30 kilotons nuclear bomb to put out a burning gas well in Uzbekistan in 1966
9wJym TIL King James I of England spoke against the dangers of tobacco in 1604, calling it dangerous to the lungs and brain and attempted to put heavy taxes on it