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TIL that up until at least 2001, cattle that died in the Austrian Alps was blown up rather than hauled away via helicopter

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GYOQQ TIL Some areas on earth are so remote that sometimes the closest human beings are astronauts aboard the International Space Station when it passes overhead.
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