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TIL Whale Fossils have been found on top of the Andes mountains

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Q8pa TIL the government in Azerbaijan decided to spend close to 1 billion dollars on a song contest instead of giving their citizens clean water.
XYWk TIL Donkeys are used for political protest in Oman because there is no way police can look dignified catching them.
4XZmg TIL that the early versions of the Easy-Bake Oven, a child's toy that allows children to bake small treats, used incandescent lightbulbs as their heat source. That's because these bulbs were so inefficient that only 5% of the electricity they used produced light. The rest produced heat.
p8X9b TIL - Shortly after the Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia, the Nazis had set up an area with captured Yugoslav aircraft. But while the German guards were listening to the news, local communists moved the fence separating the working ones from the non-working ones, leading to all aircraft being scrapped.
lN1G TIL that Phillip J. Fry from Futurama was named for Phil Hartman, who at the time of his death was preparing to voice Zapp Brannigan, a character written specifically for him.