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TIL of the Rhinoceros Party, a political party in Canada planning to make "Sorry" the new official motto of Canada and who wants to rise up the number of green cars by forcing manufacturers to build more cars in different shades of green.

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n1wY TIL Goose Pulling was European colonial era blood sport that involved fastening a live goose with a well-greased head to a rope and a man riding on horseback at a full gallop would attempt to grab the bird by the neck in order to pull the head off.
L49p TIL that Van Halen contracts contained a clause calling for “no brown m&m’s”, which allowed them to cancel a show if one was found, and only existed to guarantee that the contract was read and followed
W7ad TIL in 1917 Germans built a 25-foot-tall armor-plated fake tree with a soldier sitting in it to spy on Allied forces. the Germans waited until nightfall and cut down one of the real trees to replace it with the fake one With artillery firing the whole time so the Brits wouldn’t hear the axes.
ADLG7 TIL Clare Hollingworth, an English journalist who first broke the story of the German occupation of Poland in 1939, putting her phone out her window so a doubting British diplomat could hear the tanks.
Lkxvm TIL a 19 year old man dove 85 feet into the ocean to wrestle an 80 pound octopus with a 9 foot diameter to the surface in a 25 minute epic battle in which he punched the octopus subduing it after it turned red and lunged at him tearing off his respirator. He drove it home, cooked it up, and ate it.