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TIL there is only one pig in Afghanistan

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E1ye7 TIL about Dennis Dickey, a US Border agent who, as part of a gender reveal party, shot at a box which was packed with explosives. When hit, it emitted a cloud of blue smoke, but also set fire to the surrounding bush, destroying almost 45,000 acres of land. Dickey was ordered to pay $8m restitution.
7lkM TIL that in 2002, a Chinese publisher released an unauthorized sequel to the Harry Potter series, consisting of the text of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, but with most names changed to those of Harry Potter characters
rRMDd TIL the majority of the world's internet traffic passes through Ashburn, Virginia
0drrv TIL there was a company called Psystar Corporation that manufactured computers running Apple's Mac OS X Leopard without their permission, resulting in lawsuits from Apple.
negk9 TIL In Mainland China and Malaysia, movies have restrictions that villains should be punished in the end.