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TIL in 2015, Indonesia Police burned 3 tons of marijuana and accidentally made an entire town high

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O5Pa TIL of the “Great Stink”, where the smell of human waste in London was so powerful it affected the work of the House of Commons. Plans were made to evacuate but heavy rains ended the crisis.
oBAV8 TIL of Battle of Cape Ecnomus, in which 1/5th of the Roman male population participated in. A total of 300 thousand men participated in a pitched battle that lasted mere hours.
KYG4G TIL 12-yr-old Francesca Lewis was the sole survivor of a plane crash against the side of a Panamanian volcano that killed the 3 other people on board: her friend, her friend's dad & the pilot. She spent 52 hours in the jungle alone, with no food & both her arm & neck fractured, before being rescued.
4XkGb TIL While filming The Hateful Eight Kurt Russel mistakenly smashed a priceless 1870s Martin Guitar on loan from the museum when the prop department forgot he was holding the original. The Martin Museum says "the company will no longer loan guitars to movies under any circumstances."
grVyD TIL that Mammatus clouds look like pouches hanging from the sky. These rare cloud formations are typically found beneath thunderstorm anvil clouds and are often a sign of severe weather. They appear as a series of bulbous, sagging pockets and are formed by sinking air.