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TIL in the 1980s, India released 25,000 flesh-eating turtles into the Ganges river in an attempt to clean up corpse-pollution. The turtles were raised on dead fish so they wouldn’t develop a taste for the living, as they ate mostly everything. The $32M plan failed due to corruption and mismanagement

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5V1vn TIL 'Gunners Palace' (2004) a documentary that contains 42 uses of "fuck" and its derivatives, holds the the record for the most ever in a PG-13 film.
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