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TIL A tourist in Iceland was arrested when some local girls told him that it was tradition to run around naked on the Prime Minister's lawn.

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DK8D TIL three 16-year-old girls were able to cut germination time in half and increase dry-mass crop yields 74% by introducing nitrogen-fixing bacteria to non-leguminous crops like oats and barley. The experiment won them the 2014 Google Science Fair.
0l7j TIL that the monkey noise used in many jungle movies is actually made by the kookaburra, an Australian bird
1KWd TIL Lynyrd Skynyrd named thier band after a gym teacher who suspended them for having long hair. His name was Leonard Skinner.
maVY TIL the shortest film nominated for an Oscar was under 2 minutes and a stop animation about making guacamole ~ Fresh Guacamole by PES
VMVa8 TIL there's such a thing as Alien Abduction Insurance. It is a policy designed to protect humans from trauma suffered following alien abductions and surprisingly many insurance companies offer it.