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TIL Tumbleweed, though iconic in westerns, is not native to North America

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YwjA TIL the leaders of the Japanese Unit 731 were granted full immunity in exchange for disclosure of germ warfare data resulting from their brutal human experimentations.
d1v8 TIL Dagger in Tutankhamun’s tomb was made with iron from a meteorite
rRGGo TIL The film The Shawshank Redemption remains one of the most valuable assets in Warner Brothers catalog (which has several multi-billion dollar movie franchises) and Bob Gunton (the warden) still makes six figures a year from it.
m1rgv TIL that in the 2006 World Cup, during the match between Croatia and Australia, a Croatian player received 3 yellow cards before being sent off. Days later, the referee Graham Poll retired from international tournaments, citing the error as the reason
wLvDY TIL of Aimo Koivunen, who during WW2 became the first documented case of a soldier overdosing on methamphetamine during combat. He entered into a state of delirium and became separated from his patrol for a week. In that time he was injured by a land mine, caught and ate a raw bird, and skied 400km.