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TIL Brazil uses geese to guard their prisons

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Brgk TIL in 2008, more than 200 marijuana plants were found growing inside Miami’s Mall of the Americas.
VR8D TIL that the battle of Chosin Reservoir in the Korean War was lost… Due to Tootsie Rolls. A codereader mistook the code for mortar shells (“snacks”, they were called), and literally sent hundreds of crates of Tootsie Rolls to the marines who were out of mortar rounds.
oBvDK TIL that the hungarian prime minister commited suicide when his country entered WW2 on the axis' side.
yp58 TIL GPS trackers in fake elephant tusks helped to reveal an Ivory smuggling route.
gRbA TIL of the town of Geel, Belgium which practices de-institutionalized mental health care. Doctors place patients with host families to live. The tradition of caring for the mentally ill dates back hundreds of years.