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TIL: Raccoons are not native to Germany. They were brought there in the 1920s for their pelts. During World War II, an Allied bomb hit a raccoon farm wall, allowing a dozen or so to escape. Today, German cities are being overrun by millions of raccoons!

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74oX TIL to get revenge on fellow Boy Scouts who bullied him, a Tokyo resident mailed more than 500 boxes of soggy, smelly garbage including old underwear and rotten tea leaves to his tormentors, writing a random destination as the address with the bully’s return address in order to escape detection.
0a8A TIL over 133,000 people signed a petition stating they would prefer a different artist to headline instead of Kanye West at the Glastonbury Music Festival 2015
Rjy8 TIL that Scientology has its own prison called “The Hole” where Scientology executives are sent for months or even years of confinement, manual labor and humiliation.
o70K TIL Jim Bowie - creator of the Bowie knife - was in an epic duel where he was shot 3 times - stabbed with a cane sword which was deflected by his sternum, and bludgeoned with a gun. With his knife he killed one man and severed the forearm of another. He won the fight and lived.
X44R TIL the title for the movie “October Sky” is an anagram of the Homer Hickam book “Rocket Boys”