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TIL In 2018, a restaurant in Maine started sedating their lobsters with marijuana smoke, saying it gave them a humane death.

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0wxYR TIL in 1973, two babies [one from an identical twins & one from single birth] were accidentally switched at birth in Gran Canaria, Spain. The mistake was discovered 28 years later. A friend of one of the twins was working in a shopping center in Las Palmas, the other identical twin came in to buy.
MeN8K TIL in 2005 a barber sold Neil Armstrong's hair, after giving him a haircut, for $3000. Neil Armstrong threatened legal action. Currently his hair is being sold at £399 for each half inch strand.
wLlv8 TIL about Operation Power Flight (3 B52's fly non-stop around the Earth)
7rVNb TIL Australian opium farmers found mysterious crop circles in their fields. The culprits were wallabies who got high and bounced around in circles
VLQD TIL: in 1975, after a skydiving student’s main parachute became entangled with the plane, he deployed his reserve chute. This caused the plane to stall and engines to fail. Everybody on board survived as the plane descended under the reserve chute.