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TIL that the alien bodies retrieved at the 1947 Roswell crash were actually deformed children created by Nazi Joseph Melenge and sent by Stalin in an effort to create panic of a Mars invasion.

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aRxo TIL that women who bare their breasts publicly in Liverpool, England, will be exempt from prosecution if they work in a tropical fish store.
KORB6 TIL pineapples are actually in a proto-carnivorous plant family called bromeliads. Water trapped in their crowns supports thriving mini-ecosystems, whose residents and their droppings are absorbed for nutrients (not energy) through their leaves, as most plants can actually do.
KWNE TIL there were widespread homosexual relationships among Australian and American soldiers stationed in New Guinea during World War II
me9E TIL there is a tree which produces white flowers which are infamous for smelling exactly like semen
reow TIL a restaurant in Edinburgh held a charity hot curry eating contest that resulted in the first 10 contestants writhing in agony, panting, and vomiting, with one contestant being hospitalized twice. The 2nd group of contestants declined to participate.