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TIL that The Vatican declared capybara to be "fish" so Venezuelans could eat their meat during Lent
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TIL of the 'Battle of Brisbane' (1942), a standoff between American soldiers and Australian citizens leading to one death and hundreds of injured on both sides. The reports were censored to preserve wartime morale.
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TIL in WW2, Britain released over 50,000 weather balloons trailing wire to drift over Germany and shortcircuit high voltage wires.
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TIL that an Australian family used a large black crystal as a doorstop for over a decade before realizing that it held a 733-carat black sapphire, the Black Star of Queensland
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TIL Tobacco is fertilized with radioactive apatite, the radiation received from smoking a pack a day per year compares to receiving 2,000 modern chest x-rays a year.