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TIL that Scotland's national animal is the unicorn

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ADQy7 TIL that the common tumbleweed (Kali tragus), although used in Westerns to symbolize frontier areas of the United States, is actually an invasive plant from Russia. In the 1870s, it appeared in South Dakota when flaxseed from Russia turned out to be contaminated with Kali seeds.
6EmmQ TIL how Cumbia (south american music) back in the 1800 hundreds got accordions washed up by the sea, from a german shipwreck.
47La TIL that the infamous “Florida Man” phenomenon is caused by the state’s transparency laws, which give the media access to all arrest reports.
KxE4 TIL Since most English pirates were from London, most pirates probably didn’t ‘talk like pirates’.
NXrnJ TIL A Man walked the 19,000-mile coastline of the UK