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TIL there are Lavender, Pink, & White Panther Parties

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yZEe TIL - A fan of ‘Big Brother Australia’ host Bree Amer spent a year and over $500 stalking her by letter and phone, urging her to get tested for cancer. When a friend insisted she follow his advice, she was found to have thyroid cancer.
XEG1E TIL Dung Beetles navigate via the Milky Way, the first known species to do so in the animal kingdom
b6jd4 TIL in 2002, the UK Royal Marines accidentally invaded Spain because they're landed in the wrong beach during landing exercise in Gibraltar
kl85 TIL French poet Gérard de Nerval supposedly took a lobster on walks in the Palais Royal gardens in Paris on the end of a blue silk ribbon, saying “they are peaceful, serious creatures. They know the secrets of the sea, they don’t bark, and they don’t gnaw upon one’s monadic privacy like dogs do.”
V6m4 TIL In 2010 motorcyclist Anthony Graber was arrested under Maryland’s wiretapping law for recording a traffic stop and posting it to YouTube. Charges were later dismissed in court because “a police officer on a traffic stop has no legal expectation of privacy”