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TIL there is a Norwegian group named “Fuck For Forest” who sell porn in an effort to save the world’s rainforests

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8aKpK TIL that during the 1956 Olympic torch relay, veterinary student Barry Larkin tricked onlookers by carrying a fake torch made of a chair leg, a pudding can, and flaming underpants. He managed to hand it over to the mayor of Sydney who gave a speech without realizing it was a hoax.
9wQZ6 TIL that many buildings set their thermostats for male comfort levels
N5rM TIL as a child, George R.R. Martin (Author of a Song of Ice and Fire) would write stories about a kingdom inhabited by his pet turtles, and since they died often, he wrote that they would kill each other in sinister plots.
D19oj TIL the Seattle windshield pitting epidemic of 1954 was the result of mass delusion. When the media called attention to it people actually looked at their windshields and saw damage they had never noticed before.
xVY97 TIL about carcinisation, the process by which a crustacean evolves crab like characteristics. It has been called "one of the many attempts of Nature to evolve a crab".