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TIL Greenland has to import Christmas trees because they cannot grow that far north

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1aZeV TIL The blue raspberry flavor was created by the makers of ICEEs in 1970 to distinguish raspberry from their popular cherry flavor
R7okw TIL of Australian serial killer William MacDonald. When he left a victim under his shop and fled to another city police failed to link it to the other murders and assumed the rotting corpse was MacDonald, who was declared dead
ANdNa Today i learned that bats aren't actually blind 💀
PYjLV TIL: About the Nazi's Lebensborn program which served to raised racially pure Aryan babies. They also kidnapped "perfect" babies from foreign nations and even dyed the hair of some of them. A famous Lebensborn baby eventually became a member of ABBA.
m1xBx TIL that opossums don’t eat ticks. Stomach content studies have yielded no evidence for ticks.