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TIL that Florida will pay you to hunt snakes: No license or permit required

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WkpAB TIL: Farmers in the Austrian Alps are resorting to blowing up the carcasses of dead cows with dynamite rather than paying £200 to have them removed by helicopter (it is a legal requirement that all dead animals are removed from farms).
Y7eQv TIL General Mills produced a breakfast cereal that contained an indigestible food colouring, rendering some children's feces pink and forcing General Mills to make a new formula
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