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TIL there is a giant geoglyph in Australia that was discovered in 1998 and is miles tall. No one knows who created it.

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VrD4 TIL in 2004, GirlsGoneWild founder Joe Francis was held at gunpoint in his home by a man who demanded $500,000 whilst videotaping him and making him say “I’m from Boys Gone Wild, and I like it up the ass.”
MK10 TIL the US Democratic party’s symbol is a donkey because during the 1828 Presidential election, Democrat Andrew Jackson’s opponents referred to him as a “jackass”. Jackson liked the name and used the jackass as a symbol.
5YVeB TIL that the hottest sauce in the world is 16 million Scoville units (Tabasco, in comparison, is 2,500 to 5,000 Scoville units).
oBK8L TIL that when a heiress disappeared in New York City, her parents didn’t report her missing because they were worried about the negativity it would bring the family. She was never found.
N8OJ TIL Transmutation (turning one substance into another by chemical reaction, like in alchemy) is real. You can turn lead into gold with enough nuclear chemistry. But it would be a very tiny amount of gold and spent more money to make it than what it’s worth.