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TIL that cane toad racing is a common cultural occurance in Australia. They now even do it to celebrate their patriotic holiday "Australia Day"

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PYm6E TIL that the name Vermont comes from the French "verd mont" meaning green mountain.
x68D TIL that there was a hot sauce with 16 million Scoville Units, created from crystals of pure Caspacin
N79Jb TIL North Korea has trillions of dollars of minerals and rare earth elements in its earth reserves, but cannot exploit these deposits as the country cannot afford the infrastructure and technology to do so.
MenJB TIL in 1938, Charles A. Lindbergh received the Service Cross of the German Eagle, presented to him by Hermann Goering on behalf of Adolf Hitler. The medal was partially for his feats of flying but also for being an ardent proponent of Nazi Germany's military superiority and American isolationism.
7K4r TIL vanilla beans are the 2nd most expensive spice in the world due to a current, global vanilla bean crisis caused, in part, by a 2017 hurricane in Madagascar.