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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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WkyRY TIL when German WWII U-boats would cruise below the surface with diesel engines running, waves swamping the snorkel tubes would cause the engines to suck air from the boat to keep running, producing a partial vacuum. Crews reported it was very painful, and eardrums were sometimes ruptured.
WkkG8 TIL a that there are a group of travelling gutter punks called "crusties" that make NYC's East Village their home during the warm months.
0w4aM TIL that the perfect wave shaped blob of toothpaste from commercials is called a “nurdle” and a lawsuit was fought by two leading manufacturers over the right to depict its image.
16GdP TIL Some sharks can reproduce asexually through parthenogenesis. Parthenogenesis is a natural form of asexual reproduction in which development of an embryo from an unfertilized egg.
4XJBa TIL Mother Teresa tried to baptize dying people without telling them and found the suffering of poor people as beautiful