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TIL that Payless set up a fake luxury store called "Palessi" to prank social media influencers.

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VMwk0 TIL of an infamous bear in 1915 that killed and ate seven people over the period of a few days in a Japanese village, and that in the aftermath of the attacks (and hunting the bear) the village was completely abandoned.
vPR44 TIL over 2000 men had monkey testicles transplanted in them to halt or reverse their aging.
7r5Mr Today I Learned that the image of Smokey the Bear undergoes more enforced regulation than the American flag. This is not hyperbole, the US government has to give explicit permission for anyone to have a costume, and does not allow Smokey The Bear to be depicted in any way that is demeaning to him.
yQWZl TIL Australia has hundreds of thousands of feral camels.
vP5Rj TIL that the oldest penis graffiti/carvings was found on the limestone cliffs of a remote Greek island of Astypalaia. The graffiti also includes the phrase "Nikasitimos was here mounting Timiona."