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TIL this giant rubber duck I saw in photos once exists in Canada and was paid entirely by taxpayers' money

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YwpG TIL Germans and Russians in World War I had a temporary winter ceasefire to hunt hundreds of wolves that viciously attacked the soldiers
BgrRD TIL Virgin Atlantic kept having passengers steal their popular salt and pepper shakers. Instead of removing them from the plane, they placed the words "pinched from Virgin Atlantic" at the bottom. The shakers then became dinner table conversation pieces and free advertisement.
yQyRv TIL: On Sept. 16, 2017, 5,000 Juggalos marched on to Washington, D.C., to protest their gang classification
awR1A Jupiter is made of mostly hydrogen and helium gas. So, trying to land on it would be like trying to land on a cloud here on Earth. There's no outer crust to break your fall on Jupiter. Just an endless stretch of atmosphere. The big question, then, is: Could you fall through one end of Jupiter and out the other? It turns out, you wouldn't even make it halfway.
P1OjG TIL that after the Battle of Pilska in 811 AD, the Bulgarian emperor Krum the Fearsome had the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros l who was killed in the battle to have his skull be covered in silver in which Krum then used as a drinking cup.