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TIL Jim Henson made hilariously violent muppet-like coffee commercials back in the 1950s

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pYZvO TIL that the Australian Ibis (aka bin chickens) have learned how to eat the invasive and poisonous cane toad. They do this by picking the toad up, shaking it around to get it to expell its poison and empty is poison sacs, then washing the poison off with water.
xoE0 TIL Bruce Willis bought 12,000 girl scout cookies from his daughter and sent them to troops in the middle east and sailors among the USS John F Kennedy
4d15 TIL that after the Kargil War (1999) between India and Pakistan, the Indian Army recommended that a Pakistani soldier be honoured for bravery, and Pakistan, accepting the recommendation, posthumously awarded him their highest military honour.
p8lXO TIL The Great Pyramid has eight sides, not four sides
e0rdb TIL In 1958 nuclear weapons were proposed as a tool for petroleum extraction. The plan was to detonate 100 nuclear bombs in the Alberta Oil Sands, thus adding heat and decreasing viscosity, the bitumen could then be easily pumped out. The project was put on hiatus due to risk of Soviet espionage.