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TIL that Australia has lost a war against Emus

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69Dm TIL that white tea, green tea, and black tea are all the same plant, just having undergone different processing
0xr1 TIL in the 1970s after Boeing fired 63,000 employees in Seattle alone, someone put up this billboard: “Will the last person leaving Seattle - Turn out the lights.”
e0nN5 TIL Dick Bass, the first person to scale the seven summits, was on a flight when he deluged his seatmate for hours with details of his treks on all seven continents. Before they landed, he realized he hadn't asked his new friend anything about himself. "That's OK," the man said, "I'm Neil Armstrong"
00X1 TIL in Islamic law, a woman has the right to annul her marriage if her husband is away for too long because her right to intimacy is paramount
d8lbE TIL 15 human feet in shoes have washed up along the Pacific Northwest coast since August 2007.