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TIL that Antarctica used to be a rainforest

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JYO4Q TIL some dude made a Furby organ out of old Furby toys.
VM17p TIL that 25% of all known animals are beetles.
8a8kV Today I learned that when the Whittington brothers, of Le Mans 24h fame, bought Road Atlanta (the racetrack with the longest straight at the time in the US) in 1979, they used it to secretly land drug smuggling aircraft under the cover of darkness.
nvLP TIL Wikitravel specifically warns visitors to Kazakhstan not to mention Borat.
QJZDk TIL King Ludwig II was a huge fan of Richard Wagner. He even threatened to abdicate and follow him when political pressure forced him to exile Wagner from München.