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TIL Tasmanian opium farmers found crop circles in their fields. Wallabies were getting high and going around in circles.

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rN9Re TIL that sticking out one’s tongue is a sign of respect or agreement and was often used as a greeting in traditional Tibetan culture. Apparently, a cruel ninth-century Tibetan king had a black tongue, so people stick out their tongues to show that they are not like him (and aren’t his reincarnation)
JVmm TIL Lyndon Johnson liked to scare visitors to his ranch by driving his amphibious car downhill into a lake while shouting “The brakes don’t work! The brakes won’t hold! We’re going in! We’re going under!”
kJPZW TIL there's a live stream for the bridge between Buffalo, NY and Fort Erie, Ont. that has been operating for 18 months straight
D19YD TIL in 2016 An Artificial Intelligence program called AlphaGo successfully beat the worlds best ranked players in the ancient game of Go. A feat previously thought impossible due to the element of human intuition required.
vvJj TIL that according to a Harvard study, when you get up votes on Reddit, your brain gets rewarded the same way it does when you have sex.