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TIL: Sweet Potatoes are a commercial crop in Ontario, Canada

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Bn5K TIL that in 2013, India’s army watched “Chinese spy drones” violating its air space for six months. They later found out they were actually watching Jupiter and Venus.
dDLyK TIL Illumination's The Lorax had a song called "Biggering" that was scrapped due to how aggressive it's anti-corporate message was. This song later became "How Bad Can I Be?"
R5Ba1 TIL the HJ Heinz Company was heavily into pickle production in the early 1900’s. So much so that they patented and used a specialized Pickle Tank rail car for shipping pickles.
VM0W8 TIL In Barcelona, they control the pigeon population by mixing birth control chemicals with the birdseed
AN1D7 TIL the 3.5% rule: 3.5% of a national population peacefully protesting on the streets at once will ALWAYS topple a Dictatorship or democratic government. Moreover peaceful movements succeed twice as often as violent ones. This surprised even the Harvard political scientist who discovered it.