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TIL that Australians sell a product called "sonic animal guards" (colloquially known as "kangaroo scarers").

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ObX4 TIL that NASA has employed George Aldrich for 40 years as a ‘chief sniffer’. His job being to smell items before they go up to space to make sure no harmful smells will end up on the ISS. His nose also gets 'calibrated’ every 4 months.
947p TIL chewing of the drug Khat is so popular in Yemen that its cultivation accounts for 40% of the desert nation’s water use
ZEvQ TIL that some Russian bears are addicted to sniffing Jet Fuel out of empty fuel barrels. They like getting high so much, they stalk helicopters for the drops of fuel that leaks onto the soil.
yVYbw TIL that the biggest butterfly in the world has a 31cm wingspan. It belongs to the Queen Alexandra's Birdwing butterfly, which you can find in the forests of the Oro Province, in the east of Papua New Guinea.
5lB8 til in 2005, Denver took people’s dogs and euthanized them if them they resembled a pit bull