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TIL that in December 2013, Tinder had its first Antarctica match between an American McMurdo Station scientist and visiting camper, a 45 minute helicopter ride away

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w1o1 TIL that the Rhinoceros Party of Canada, a satirical, federally registered political party in Canada, received 1.01% of the popular vote in the 1980 federal election campaigning to repeal the law of gravity and provide higher education by building taller schools, among other promises.
Lkba9 TIL Osama Bin Laden was an Elephant that went on a two year rampage killing 27 people
MeaxA TIL Steve Jobs threw such a tantrum when he was given the employee number 2 that he even cried. He also was so hellbent in be before Steve Wozniak that he then demanded to be Employee #0.
awxOb TIL that the US Air Force speculated on producing a non lethal psychochemical weapon that would discharge female pheromones to make the enemy soldires fall in love with each other
gD48 TIL a “Devil’s Garden” occurs in the Amazon Rainforest when certain ants remove competing flora and fauna and protect one specific tree and the tree in turn provides the ants with specialized hollow stems for nest sites which can host up to 3 million ants for 800 years