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TIL that Idaho dropped beavers with parachutes from airplanes because the beavers we're destroying rich people's summer homes.

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drod TIL the Mexican Air Force squadron known as the “Aztec Eagles” played a role in the Pacific Theater of World War II, providing air support for the Allies and putting an estimated 30,000 Japanese troops out of action.
7wW7 TIL that in 1976 after enjoying a few pints, two chaps decided to “…go over there and make it look like a flying saucer has landed.” From 1976-1991, Doug Bower and Dave Chorley were responsible for over 200 crop circles that started the craze.
r6Re TIL that the owner of In-N-Out, Lynsi Synder, is the only surviving descendant of the founders of In N Out (her grandparents) and at age 31, she is worth $1.1 billion dollars
9Y18Q TIL that according to an analysis of 1.6 billion words from 41,829 issues of 132 newspapers from 1830 to 1860, George Washington's 1796 Farewell Address was still "going viral" nearly half a century after it was first published
e54b TIL - Truckers throw out gallon jugs of urine and bags filled with feces out their windows, and it’s an actual problem.