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TIL all snails are hermaphrodites. No wonder they’re never in a rush...

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BgvNe TIL, White Horse Temple, the first Buddhist temple in China, was desecrated heavily during the Cultural Revolution. At the same time, when the King of Cambodia requested to visit the temple, the Chinese authorities quickly restored it including placing artefacts from other museums in the temple.
5VXOp TIL that “Me at the zoo” was the first video ever posted to YouTube by co-founder Jawed Karin in 2005
x6EDg TIL of the Combat of the Thirty, during the Breton War of Succession, in which warring knights of France and England agreed to an arranged fight with 30 knights each. Highlights include a negotiated rest break, and a French squire single-handedly beating seven English champions to turn the tide.
xp77 TIL In 2014 Californians consumed 46 billion gallons of water per day and less than 17% of that was consumed by the general public.
WkeDY TIL Opium farmers in Australia kept finding mysterious crop circles on their fields. They eventually found out it was wallabies who got high and bounced around in circles