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TIL Chinese students can rent fake parents to meet their teacher to avoid embarrassment

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4kX7w TIL after the TV show Teletubbies ended, the owner of the land used had to dig out the hill and flood the field it was filmed in, due to the amount of people trespassing to see Teletubbieland.
1PK7 TIL there were so many mummified cats excavated in Egypt that 19 tons of them were shipped to England to be used as fertilizer
R7N84 TIL Leonard Cohen originally wrote 80 draft verses for his song "Hallelujah." He chose several of the most relevant and interchanged some of them depending on where he was playing.
R7mm8 TIL lobsters communicate by peeing in each others' faces.
gM0LD TIL: An orphaned fawn that has been unable to nurse will be dehydrated, causing the tips of the fawn's ears to curl backward slightly. Healthy, well-fed fawns have straight ears.