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TIL that Chuck Norris was an outspoken supporter of the Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage in California

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awEEy TIL that the Golden Wattle (Acacia pycnantha) the emblem for Australia contains a psychoactive alkaloid called DMT.
aPWM TIL that an ‘I am Rich’ iPhone App was made which cost $999.99. The App displayed a glowing red gem on a user’s iPhone screen for the sole purpose of proving to onlookers that one is of the moneyed class. It was removed later, but not before eight people bought it.
jNPYN TIL of the Judas Goat - in an effort to rid the Galapagos Islands of goats, park rangers sterilize and inject hormones into a female goat putting her into heat. The wild goats are attracted to her and rangers shoot all of her potential mates.
VMpwp TIL: Avatar (2009 Film) required 4,000 servers, 35,000 CPU Cores, 104 TB of RAM, and 3 PB of Network Area Storage in a 10,000 sq ft farm to render the movies effects
4XZlb TIL why the states of Arkansas and Kansas are pronounced differently.