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TIL horse meat was sold as beef in Europe

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rPyM TIL of BuzzWinkle, a moose from Anchorage Alaska who frequently roamed the city drunk from eating fermented crab apples and more than once was found ripping down Christmas lights with his antlers or passed out in the street downtown
kOyy5 TIL In 2006, 3 fans of Russian football club Zenit St. Petersburg traveled 9320 miles in an old Honda to watch their team's next match in Vladivostok. The car broke in Vladivostok and they were stranded. Zenit offered a free train ride back, and the broken Honda is on display in the museum of Zenit.
xnAo TIL Facebook removed a video promoting “Freedom for Palestine” from Coldplay’s page for being “abusive”.
v1EY8 TIL that due to the lack of natural predators on the Galápagos Islands, the wildlife is very friendly and extremely tame without instinctual fear
6VRJ TIL that even though mid-air collisions between 2 aircraft are extremely rare, there has been 1 recorded incident of a mid-air collision involving 3 aircraft in 1988.