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TIL that Chihuahuas were raised and sold as food by the Aztecs.

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6EyaW TIL in July 1989 a Soviet pilot catapulted out of his MiG-23 over Poland, the plane flew another 1000 km. and crashed into a Belgium farm killing 1.
VM67G TIL The north pole of the planet is actually a magnetic south pole right now, but it is still referred to as “magnetic north” to correspond with our geographic measurements
e0XEb TIL that Canberra was chosen to be the capital of Australia because neither Melbourne or Sydney would accept its rival as the permanent national capital.
xK95 TIL if you throw a banana in front of a colony of bees they get really pissed off, because the pheromone that makes bees agitated is the same compound that makes bananas taste like bananas.
epD5 Today I learned that many of the men who acted as guards along the Great Wall of China in the Middle Ages spent their whole lives there. They were born there, raised there, they married there, died there, and were even buried within the wall.