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TIL a nickel weighs EXACTLY twice as much as a penny.
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TIL: Farmers in the Austrian Alps are resorting to blowing up the carcasses of dead cows with dynamite rather than paying £200 to have them removed by helicopter (it is a legal requirement that all dead animals are removed from farms).
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TIL that while camels now live in Australia as an invasive species, there are records of aboriginal people first seeing them. One man, Andy Tjilari, recalled following the camels with his family, concluding that "this horse is ignorant".
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TIL that Lightning McQueen was not named after racing legend Steve McQueen, but rather the former Pixar animator Glenn McQueen who died of skin cancer in 2002.
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TIL in the 90s Costa Rica saved a dying forest by dumping 12,000 tons of waste orange peels and pulp (1000 truckloads)
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TIL at noon on September 1, 1923, a massive earthquake hit Tokyo. Major fires popped up across the city, because people were cooking lunch over fires when the quake hit. Over 100,000 people died.