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TIL that The longest place name on the planet is 85 letters long.

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694RW TIL that a Beatles knockoff, Los Shakers, were one of the most successful and influential bands of the 1960s in Argentina and Uruguay. The band imitated the Beatles’ looks, music, changed genres as the Beatles did, spearheaded the “Uruguayan invasion”, and even sang mostly in English
LXlQ TIL in Ireland, they leave Guinness out for Santa on Christmas Eve
Ky6Q TIL farmers in Kenya are using elephants’ natural fears of bees and building “beehive fences” that keep wild elephants from trampling the crops. It keeps the farms safe, and prevents farmers having to kill elephants to defend their livelihood!
1ax4V TIL:There are bugs which are specific to particular foods stored by humans. For example the Biscuit Beetle.
4XaYg TIL that in the 1860's an atheist tobacconist named George Hull created a 10-foot stone statue, buried it, then exhumed it a year later as proof of giants, all to mock a bible verse that states giants once lived on the Earth.