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TIL Australia constructed a number of pest-exclusion fences in an (unsuccessful) attempt to control rabbit and dingo populations - at one time, the rabbit-proof fence was the longest unbroken fence in the world

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pJvA TIL: In Kenya, homosexuality is a crime with 96% of Kenyans thinking it is unacceptable. Yet the second most popular search in the country was ‘gay monster cock’.
D194g TIL in Starship Troopers movie, one of the specimen in the crowd of bugs gets claustrophobic and freaks out flailing back and forth like he’s having a little seizure. The rendering system put it in the prominent position of the screen, Verhoeven saw an early version of the shot and loved it
Op6e TIL Nancy Astor was the first female MP in the UK, and is known for her “poison tea” exchange with Churchill, but had some lesser known retorts of her own including telling Churchill-who asked how he could possibly appear in disguise at a masquerade-“Why don’t you come sober?”
xjBD TIL when filming ‘The Princess Bride’ Andre the Giant would warm a freezing Robin Wright Penn (Princess Buttercup) simply by placing his huge hand on her head.
nQnP TIL After the war, about 5000 Irish soldiers that joined the Brits to fight Hitler were treated as outcasts and stripped of all pay and pension rights