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TIL Huge feral hogs have invaded Canada, building ‘pigloos’ as they go

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NwLN TIL male trees lacking a female mate are often responsible for allergies (the equivalency of “blue balls” in animals, except with super pollination)
n9jP TIL or Horace Greasely, who escaped the Nazi death camps 200 times to meet with the woman he was in love with, and returned after every time because there was no other place to go to.
LkwRZ TIL that every single actress who has won an Academy Award has played a character working in the sex trade industry. 95% played prostitutes, while about 5% played someone working in or related to the sex trade industry.
awjYy TIL that the Soviet Union women's rugby team sold smuggled vodka to pay for their 1991 World Cup expenses and Customs didn't issue any enforcement due to a language barrier
Z8V7Y TIL of Michael Orchard, a heroic man who broke into his neighbor's burning home to rescue their dog, and who later found out that the house fire was actually NOT real but was just a hallucination from the LSD he was consuming.