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TIL baby puffins are called "pufflings".
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TIL about the Gympie Gympie bush (or “Suicide Tree”). It delivers a sting described as “like being burnt with hot acid and electrocuted at the same time”. One man was stung and after 3 weeks of agony, was driven “as mad as a cut snake”. Another shot himself after using the leaves as toilet paper.
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TIL Alaska is home to the easternmost point in the United States, due to the fact that the Aleutian Islands extend past the 180th meridian.
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TIL that Ava Gardner, while married to Frank Sinatra, became pregnant twice, but aborted both pregnancies due to "MGM [having] all sorts of penalty clauses about their stars having babies."
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TIL that the US pays rent for Guantanamo Bay, but Cuba refuses to cash the checks.
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TIL that Gandalf from Lord of the Rings is the same ‘being’ as the ancient Balrog demon that he fought.