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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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ANYLw TIL A chicken in Indonesia has such a distinctive crow it is used as a foghorn on boats.
rR9Q4 TIL a small town in southern Kyoto, Japan has a yearly festival and monument next to a shrine dedicated to Thomas Edison. He used the bamboo from the town Yawata for his filament in the lightbulbs which increased the use time from 40 hours to 1,000
W777X TIL that much of the justification for the beginning of the Anglo-Zulu war was two surveyors being detained for about an hour and having their smoking pipes and handkerchiefs stolen.
1vj4 TIL A British Man rescued 669 children destine for death camps from Nazis, arranged for them to have homes and smuggled them to Britain. Today is his 105th birthday
xVYL0 TIL in 2009 Astronaut and lunar explorer Buzz Aldrin teamed up with rapper Snoop Dogg to release a song celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission