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TIL that until it closed in 2012 amid animal welfare concerns, Wildlife Wonderland Park near Bass, Victoria, was home to the Giant Earthworm Museum. Inside the worm-shaped museum, visitors could crawl through a magnified replica of a worm burrow and a simulated worm's stomach.

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Y7nex TIL scientists going on rotation to the South Pole watch The Thing(1982) on their first night at base
log4a TIL that the last rock song to achieve #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 was "How You Remind Me" by Nickelback on December 2001
kJ8kB TIL that Air Tahiti Nui Flight 64 holds the record as the world's longest domestic flight. The flight was between Papeete in French Polynesia and Paris (15,715 km/9,765 mi) taking 16h20. The current longest domestic flight is AF647 between Saint-Denis, Réunion and Paris (9,349 km/5,809 mi/11h40)
0wG4y TIL about Andy George who spent $1,500 and 6 months making a single sandwich completely from scratch. He did absolutely everything from making his own cheese to harvesting his own wheat. He made his own salt and made his own oil. He grew sunflowers and collected their seeds to extract fat.
l0k1 TIL Hubble can get detailed views of distant galaxies but not of Pluto