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TIL that wallabies (similar to kangaroos), have been known to eat opium flowers at (legal) Australian crops, then proceed to jump around, stoned, and make crop circles.

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GYlV4 TIL Louis Pasteur, the scientist who discovered pasteurization, originally did not experiment with milk, but beer.
ePn5 TIL that “Keep Calm and Carry On” posters were never used during wartime. The public didn’t actually see the design until a copy was found a few years ago in a second-hand bookshop in Northumberland.
7kdM TIL a man named William Harrison went missing in Gloucester and, upon interrogation, his servant confessed that he, his mother and his brother had killed Harrison for money. Two years after they were executed Harrison reappeared, claiming to have been abducted and sold into slavery.
9YnGm TIL of the Yottabyte, the largest known multiple of byte, 1 YB = 10008bytes = 1024bytes = 1000000000000000000000000bytes = 1000 zettabytes = 1 trillion terabytes. Since the radius of Holmium is 233 pm, an atomic memory device could store one yottabyte in an area roughly the size of a nickel.
GYjGJ TIL that the peace sign stands for Nuclear Disarmament