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TIL that it is illegal to share food with the homeless in Orlando, Florida.

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b9ngp TIL that the Australian bush ballad "Waltzing Matilda", also known as the country's unofficial national anthem, is actually about a travelling worker who steals the local landowners sheep to eat. Upon being chased by him and three policemen, he commits suicide by drowning himself in a local river.
gjZy TIL N64 GoldenEye 007 was developed by a very small and inexperienced team; it only had ten developers, eight of whom had never previously worked on video games
OonVL TIL of Julian Jaynes's "Bicameral Mind Theory" which suggests that ancient humans were not self aware and that the right hemisphere communicated with the left via auditory hallucinations. These voices may have been interpreted as "gods" by early humans.
6EYgQ TIL Caitlyn Jenner is against gay marriage and describes herself as a "traditionalist"
R7kdw TIL a scotch-collie dog walked 2,551 miles to Oregon--from August 1923 to February 1924--to his home when he got lost from his family while they were on vacation in Indiana.