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TIL the BBC once managed to convince people that spaghetti grew on trees by showing a three-minute 'documentary' on April's fools day

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P14AZ TIL that elephants in Kenya's Kitum Cave venture into the dark to mine salt by breaking off rocks, adapting to their mineral-poor environment.
oBpdr TIL about UG99, a highly contagious wheat stem rust that can confer a 100% devastation rate to affected crops. It's essentially the Ebola of wheat and efforts are being made to stop it before we reach Wheatmaggedon
kg6B TIL a programmer at a game company got so tired of producers asking for changes just because they felt they had to contribute, that he animated a flapping duck into the game “Battle Chess”. When the producer reviewed the animations, he said, “That looks great. Just one thing: get rid of the duck.”
47aJ TIL of a Malawian teenager who taught himself how to build a windmill out of junk and bring power to his village. He then went on to build a second, larger windmill to power irrigation pumps. He did this all from books he read in the library.
wL9y8 TIL Colonel Sanders wounded a business rival in a deadly shootout in the 1920's. The future fast-food giant shot a Standard Oil gas station owner for painting over one of his billboards. All charges were dropped.