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TIL: There is a tea farm in Sichuan that specializes in Panda Dung Tea. They use the excrement of giant panda to fertilize the tea. It sold for $3,500 in lots of 50 grams. It is advertised as healthy as Pandas only eat bamboo.

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KVo9 TIL during the Cold War, students at Stuyvesant High School built a particle accelerator in their school’s basement. However, when they powered it on, it “tanked the electrical system for the building and surrounding area.” > $10,000 were spent on the machine, but no one knows what happened to it.
ANovw TIL that Italian mafia boss Gioacchino Gammino escaped prison in 2002, fled to Spain, changed his name to Manuel and opened a restaurant and a grocery shop. After 20 years in hiding, he was found thanks to Google Street View
X0OLQ TIL that there is an alternative pair of dice called Sicherman Dice, which have unusual numbers on each die, but the probability of rolling any sum (2-12) is the same as with a pair of regular dice.
Va5Q TIL that the Imperial German Raider SMS Wolf made the longest voyage of a warship during World War I. When it returned to Germany it had on board 467 prisoners of war and tons of vital war plunder
Ka6B TIL a Greenland shark was tagged off Greenland in 1936 and recaptured in 1952. Its measurements suggest that Greenland sharks grow at a rate of 0.5–1 cm (0.2–0.4 in) per year, thus the largest individuals may live about 200 years, making them among the longest-lived vertebrates on Earth.