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TIL India’s government once released about 25,000 flesh-eating turtles to clean up corpses polluting the Ganges river.

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5vjp TIL that 60’s counterculture singer Phil Ochs would go on paranoid drunken rants about the FBI watching him. After hanging himself in his sister’s home it was revealed that the FBI had a 500 page file on him.
wLoyE TIL of Suryash Dixit, who declared himself ruler of Bir Tawil, an unclaimed territory between Egypt and Sudan.
YpnEx TIL that pill bugs (A.K.A rollie pollies) are actually crustaceans that adapted to live entirely on land
4kOXb TIL That, during WW II, only 30-40% of the German Army was mechanized. The remainder relied on on rail or horse drawn transportation.
jJeX TIL Denmark & Norway were a single country between 1524 - 1814 and Sweden and Norway were a single country between 1814 - 1905