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TIL Google doesn’t use lawnmowers to cut its grass. Google rents 200 goats to chow down on their grass for roughly a week.

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PYlbg TIL If you let potatoes consisting of 99% water dry so that they are 98% water, they lose 50% of their weight (Potato Paradox)
NyK6 TIL in 2013 a female professor attempted to give a public lecture on men’s rights at the University of Ottawa. 30 protesters harassed the meeting with megaphones outside until they were forced to change rooms, at which point the protesters pulled a fire alarm to force an evacuation of the lecture.
WkXB TIL that 390,000 UK citizens reported their religion as “Jedi” in a 2001 census.
8a01G TIL Zimbabwe has what many experts believe to be the largest diamond field in the world. With extraction of over 17Million carats. This mining region is size of the German capital Berlin, these diamonds are sent to the EU to be refined.
mxbBE TIL Sweater Curse is a curse that causes a knitter's SO to break up with them