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TIL in 2013, a pig in Australia stole 18 beers from a campsite, got drunk, and then tried to fight a cow.

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ZxJ4 TIL a town in North Carolina, fed up with Time Warner, built their own isp called Greenlight. Time Warner’s response was to lobby the state senate.
awvdN TIL about a man named Wally Wallington, a retired construction worker, who has figured out a way for a single person to manipulate monoliths using only wooden levers, pebbles, and counterweights, and who may have solved the mystery of Stonehenge.
bMVQ TIL a 35 year-old gold miner, using only hand tools and dynamite, moved 5,800 tons of granite, building a half-mile tunnel to move his ore. He finished the project at age 67.
oB8NL TIL in 1935 Germany sent Nazi lawyers to America to study Jim Crows laws to learn how to legally discriminate against and disenfranchise its Jewish citizens.
ypQJ TIL Charles Redheffer was an American inventor who claimed to have invented a perpetual motion machine, He was later exposed when an engineer found a hidden cord that led to an upper floor. Upstairs he found an old man who was turning a hand-crank with one hand and eating bread with the other