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TIL Mayonnaise is named after (and was likely invented in) Mahón, Spain

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BgrOL TIL that in 1946, the Argentinian government imported 50 beavers in an attempt to start a fur trade. There are now 200,000 and they are threatening over 39 million acres of forest.
BrZVW TIL About charities that take used pacemakers from deceased people and donate them to people in third world countries
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