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TIL Potatoes were introduced to Ireland in 1590. And it is possible to stay healthy on a diet of potatoes alone.

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JYrGj TIL I learned that the British Museum may hold many artifacts from around the world and also refuses to hand over the artifacts they took it from.
Z8Ona TIL In Australia, the Henley-on-Todd Regatta is held annually on the dry Todd riverbed. Competitors run down the course carrying bottomless boats. It was cancelled once, in 1993, due to flooding
grP5b TIL Colin Farrell was accused of murder in Australia. The thing that got him off was that his friend had a diary entry saying that they done ecstasy together that day - on the opposite side of the city from where the murder took place
4XNjo TIL ornithologist Helen Hays has lived for six months of the year since 1969 on Great Gull Island (a remote, critical nesting area for migrating birds) to help restore the island's ecosystem for threatened terns. Due to her work on the island, the tern population was successfully recovered.
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