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TIL that a man stranded in the bush in northern Saskatchewan cut electrical poles to attract the attention of workers and be rescued.

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AD984 TIL that A 'kangaroo word' is a word that contains the letters of its own synonym, in order, like MAscuLinE, ChOCOlAte, cHickEN. And a double kangaroo word has two joey words, like Containter for CAN and TIN
AnOB TIL India has the largest government midday meal program in the world, feeding 120 million students per day for free.
gMKwD TIL Gandalf store his smoking pipe in his staff!
WklQ9 TIL that a popular sort of red grapefruit was created by atomic gardening: a form of mutation breeding where plants were directly exposed to radioactive sources
9wpG TIL a muslim wikipedia editor contributed to 8,115 separate Wikipedia articles with over 67,000 edits until being caught in 2010, focusing efforts on improving the image of Islam and downplaying the achievements of the Western world, misrepresentations which were then reproduced all over the net.