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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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lo6YA TIL Back in 2011, the travelling Picadilly Circus was scheduled to perform in Joplin, Missouri, until an EF-5 Tornado destroyed most of the city, rendering them unable to perform. As a result, the circus employees used their two adult elephants to help drag debris off the roads for first responders.
mXMy TIL that while millions of North Koreans starve, the nation’s rulers have taken up the habit of having McDonald’s hamburgers flown DAILY from China to Pyongyang (on North Korea’s national airline).
a8pbb TIL the Olympic Truce is still in effect, with all nations on Earth agreeing to observe it.
P9ge TIL Mr. Rogers made a legendary Emmy acceptance speech that shut everybody up & left people in tears
P1eNg TIL eels swim from a lake in Australia through stormwater drains and across the ocean to lay eggs in New Caledonia where they die. Their eggs hatch and make the return journey back to the lake they came from.