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TIL from 1843 to 1937, French shepherds traveled on stilts to keep track of their sheep and watch for wolves. Detailed story and pictures in comments.

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86ra TIL Hitler never visited a single concentration camp, nor did he ever talk about the killings taking place.
Bg84W TIL The 2011 Smithville, MS EF-5 tornado, one of the strongest ever recorded, threw a semi-truck 300 yds, embedded an rv into the ground 250 yards away, and threw an SUV into the top of a water tower half a mile away before it landed crushed into a ball another quarter mile away.
mo8O TIL that waterproof smartphones exist because Japanese girls love to shower with them
5VmlB TIL that globally, we produce over 9,900,000 tons of butter a year, and India produces 3,797,550 of that, making it the largest butter producer in the world (via Atlas Big). The United States, which comes in second place, makes less than half that amount each year, with Pakistan coming in third.
loRVK TIL During Leslie Nielsen’s funeral in 2010, the “Naked Gun” theme was playing while RCMP officers carried his casket into a hotel near the funeral home.