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TIL that Toronto, trash panda capital of the world, spent CA $31 million on raccoon resistant trash bins which uber raccoons were able to figure out in a matter of days.

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XE4Jr TIL Penguin Australia was forced to destroy 7,000 of its cookbook Pasta Bible after a typo suggested that a dish required "salt and freshly ground black people" instead of "black pepper". The mistake cost the company $20k.
6E0km TIL by 2019 the Magic Kingdom theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida had been the world's most visited theme park for 13 consecutive years.
RXej TIL of Nyarri Morgan, an Australian aboriginal man who had no contact with the Western world until he witnessed - with no context - an atomic test and its resulting effects
b6oxZ TIL In 1999 Tiger Woods hit a tee shot that landed behind a boulder. The boulder was ruled a 'loose impedement' which allowed it to be moved. Several of Tiger's gallery and his caddie worked together to move the boulder, allowing Tiger to birdie the hole.
a8dQy TIL Beijing's Tiananmen square is 880-metre-long and 500-metre-wide with a capacity to hold one million people. It is open from 4am to 11pm everyday