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TIL Opium farmers in Australia kept finding mysterious crop circles on their fields. They eventually found out it was wallabies who got high and bounced around in circles

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vpoR TIL that Trey Parker’s father is a geologist named, Randy, his mother’s name is Sharon, and has an older sister named Shelly.
e0oLb TIL That most animals bodies manufacture their own vitamin C. Only primates are unable to make our own. A few very rare species of birds and fish also lack this ability. The intake must be maintained through diet.
NX6re TIL that the Boiling Frog Apologue (A frog will jump out of boiling water but not tepid water being graddually heated) is based on a 19th century experiment on dead frogs. Living frogs will jump out of water that becomes too hot, and immediately die if placed in boiling water.
yZPX TIL the Austrian village of “Fucking” is particularly popular with British tourists. A local tour guide said: “The Germans all want to see Mozart’s house in Salzburg; the Americans want to see where The Sound of Music was filmed…but for the British, it’s all about Fucking.”
dJMZ TIL When Prince released “1999”, 1999 was as far in the future as it now is in the past (16.3 years).