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TIL Before becoming a global pop sensation, Taylor Swift grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania, which inspired her song "Christmas Tree Farm"

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E1Le7 TIL that during WWI, a bunch of Australians decided that they would go to no mans land and steal a German tank because they were bored and drunk.
8eEJ4 TIL: Dawn, the preferred detergent for cleaning oil spills, ironically derives its grease fighting power from petroleum derived chemicals
4Xpr6 TIL all but 2 giant pandas in the world are officially owned by China. The other two are in Mexico and at an age where they can’t breed. Soon China will own all the giant pandas once they die.
ORmR TIL that the number of holes on a golf course, 18, is a completely arbitrary number chosen by St. Andrews Links course in 1764, and other courses simply copied them.
Yp4pA TIL due to extreme lack of surface water, a unique project was constructed to reliably provide the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus with water. A 50 mile long pipeline passing under the sea transfers water covering demand for drinking and irrigation for the state at the northern part of Cyprus.