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TIL there is a monument in Dalby, Queensland commemorating a species of moth that eradicated the invasive Prickly Pear Cactus that had spread across 15000 square miles of Australia.

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RKv4 TIL: the incidence of psychopathy is 4 times the amount in CEO’s as the regular population.
PY1Kn TIL that after the U.S. Army Chemical Corps exposed over 11,000 guinea pigs to the bacterium Brucella suis via air-dropped M33s, one Chemical Corps general remarked, "Now we know what to do if we ever go to war against guinea pigs"
m1kdP TIL Prince's 'The Most Beautiful Girl in the World' was the subject to one of music's longest running plagiarism cases. In '95 an Italian court ruled that Prince had plagiarized 'Takin' Me to Paradise' by two Italian song writers. After many appeals by both sides an agreement was reached in 2022.
jNjJp TIL holding in farts can lead to bad breath, this is due to excess methane traveling through the bloodstream and leading into the lungs where it's exhaled.
WegY TIL Robbie Williams’ album Rudebox was so commercially unsuccessful that over 1 million copies were sent to China to be recycled and used for surfacing roads