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TIL a 71 year old man from Palm Beach, Florida tied a gun to a weather balloon, inflated it, then shot himself to death... successfully faking his own murder

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mxAo TIL There is a verifiable population of kangaroos living in the wild in the township of Émancé, about an hour outside of Paris.[2] The kangaroos are descended from a breeding population which escaped during a botched burglary attempt at an animal park in the 1970s.
v1V1B TIL In 1998 Karl Bushby set out to become the first person to walk an unbroken path around the world, starting from Chile and finishing in the UK. He is currently in Kazakhstan.
j6XER TIL caffeine enhances physical performance, endurance, muscle strength and power
neJ59 TIL about Buckfast--a wine brewed by some of the last Benedictine monks in Britain, sold as a tonic in UK pharmacies, and known infamously in Scotland as "Wreck the Hoose Juice" where it was associated with >40% of all violent crime there in 2015
AkEx TIL a gambler named Brian Zembic entered into a wager where he received breast implants, and if he kept them in for a year would win $US 100,000. He won.