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TIL the Green Bay Packers are the only non-profit, community-owned team in the NFL

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yVb5a TIL that Subbotnik is a day in Russia when people in many cities volunteer to clean the streets, a tradition that began after the Russian Revolution and persists today.
5eYD TIL Large Blue caterpillars secretes sweet fluids to attract red ants. The ants then take the caterpillar back to their nest so it can hibernate. The newly emerged butterfly is escorted by the ants to the surface and will protect it from any predators that attempt to attack the butterfly.
LGWd TIL Owen Wilson was replaced by Matthew McConaughey in Tropic Thunder after Wilson’s trouble with major depression
1yWV TIL that Aki Ra - a former child soldier - has devoted his life to removing landmines, and caring for young landmine victims. He has personally removed and destroyed as many as 50,000 landmines from Cambodia, originally using no more than a knife, a hoe, and a stick
GBAN TIL That the writer of “O Canada” was wounded while fighting for the Union in the American Civil War.