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TIL While imprisoned for murdering 7 people in Australia, Ivan Milat "The Backpacker Killer" cut off his little finger with a plastic knife in 2011 in order to send it by mail to the High Court of Australia.

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bbj9 TIL there are 4 million square miles of fertile land in Africa that can’t be cultivated because tsetse flys keep killing farm animals.
4mGN TIL that in 2005, security guards at Australia’s Parliament House were banned from calling people ‘mate’. The ban lasted one day.
OowO1 TIL Decaf Coffee was accidentally discovered when a train car got soaked with sea water which removed the caffeine
P1AoV TIL Zillion is not a number
Wk8Gd TIL just how destructive Bradford Pear trees are. They're considered a highly invasive species (it was once thought they would be sterile as a hybrid). They're incredibly weak and are often damaged in storms, so their life span is usually 15-20 years. They're all around bad trees. Plus they stink!