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TIL that UC Berkeley offers a degree in "meme studies"

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dGxE TIL that ghost peppers are used in India as a repellant to ward off elephants, preventing them from eating and destroying crops
NZv1 TIL that in the 1980’s, Darrell Hammond was set-up by police in the Bahamas by being given a cocaine-laced dollar bill and arrested for possession.
R54J6 TIL Barbara Morgan, backup to Christa McAuliffe who died on the ill-fated Challenger mission, was also in a NASA chase plane that was following the Columbia when it broke up seventeen years later. She flew into space on Endeavour in 2007, fulfilling the Teacher in Space mission.
xvD1 TIL Bob barker is a karate expert and trained for eight years with Chuck Norris.
78QRO TIL: A juvenile narwhal lost in the St. Lawrence River got adopted by a group of beluga and has stayed with them since at least 2016