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TIL Sydney, Australia has an annual duck fashion show :)

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e0G1J TIL that a couple days before the deadly eruption of Mt. Pelee in 1902, the town of St. Pierre was plagued by in invasion of giant centipedes and pit vipers, claiming the lives of 50 people.
R7j64 TIL During Napoléon Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt in 1798, alcohol was not available per Egypt being an Islamic country. In lieu of alcohol, Bonaparte's troops resorted to trying hashish, which they found to their liking
xVNX1 TIL of the song "September When It Comes" written by Rosanne Cash and performed with her father Johnny Cash on her 2003 album "Rules of Travel". Johnny Cash would in fact pass in September of that year.
OGMAa TIL: Because Nintendo could not get the rights to the Popeye cartoon character, they came up with Mario instead.
KYYMG TIL that a 1982 Harvard study confirmed that Tibetan monks can raise their body temperature with their minds. Practitioners of "g-tummo" yoga demonstrated the ability to raise the temperature of different parts of their bodies through meditation alone.