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TIL of "Operation Rock Wallaby", a helicopter mission which dumped thousands of pounds of veggies (mostly carrots and sweet potatoes) to wallabies and other animals left without a food source after surviving wildfire in New South Wales.

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J0Rv TIL, a beach in Russia is covered in “sea glass,” small, polished, colorful pieces of glass that formed from garbage dumped into the ocean. The beach is so beautiful, it has become a tourist destination.
OoQ0Y TIL Cats put their butts in your face because they are allowing you to “get to know” them
R5xGQ TIL that Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass are both buried in the same cemetery in Rochester, New York.
9e0D TIL That Geoffry Chaucer (of Canterbury Tales fame) was granted “a gallon of wine daily for the rest of his life” by King Edward III of England in recognition of his poetic talent.
woZYY TIL, in the January 1982 California floods, more than 18,000 landslides swept through the SF Bay Area killing 33 and causing $280 million in damages.