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TIL that legal poppy farmers in Tasmania couldn't figure out why they kept getting crop circles until it was revealed wallabies were breaking in to eat the bulbs to get high then running around in circles trampling the flowers

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5OWp TIL that 70% of all crimes committed by young people in South Korea are related to virtual worlds, mostly attempts to steal virtual money and virtual items.
4X8Yg TIL that in physics, acceleration is the change in velocity(speed), jerk is the change in acceleration, jounce(snap) is the change in jerk, crackle is the change in jounce and pop is the change in crackle.
rpvW TIL that the alternative history novel “The Man in the High Castle” features a “novel within a novel”. While the actual book is about Nazis winning WWII, the in-book novel is about an alternate universe in which the Nazis lose the war.
X0kLX TIL Of pancake syndrome, an illness derived from eating contaminated pancakes. Illness comes from having an allergic reaction to eating flour containing dust mites.
PrdG TIL of Ming the Clam that, when discovered, it was the oldest living animal ever discovered…until the Scientists observing the clam killed it.