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TIL that Enya lives alone years now in a castle she bought next to Bono

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7r11X TIL Asian Arowana, the most expensive aquarium fish, is rumored to sell for as high as $300,000. While illegal to own in the US, people in Asian countries have: paid to have surgery on the fish, robbed people for it, and even murdered for the fish.
e0l8J TIL Dogs look at owners while they poop because they know they are vulnerable and want you to warn/protect them if there is trouble!
KlXJ TIL oil companies in Alberta’s tar sands use more water in a year than the entire city of Toronto, pay nothing for it, and don’t clean it up
xVOlo TIL that when trying to expand into the China in the late 1980s, KFC mistakenly mistranslated their famous “It’s Finger Lickin’ Good” slogan to “Eat Your Fingers Off”
Yp8wW TIL up until the widespread acceptance of germ theory and invention of the disposable cup in 1907, public water fountains used to consist of "common" or "community" metal cup attached to a chain