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TIL You can rent a goat from Amazon to cut your lawn if there is a goat provider in your area.

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YG6Z TIL In 2004 a 13yo girl was walking to school but was shot and wounded at a distance by IDF soldiers. As she cowered, wounded behind a rock an Israeli captain went up to her and emptied 17 bullets from his rifle into her at point blank range. The captain was exonerated and later promoted to a Major.
Br5yL TIL that Heroin was sythesized, named, commercialized and marketed by Bayer, the pharmaceutical company.
M7DxA TIL Alan Menken, the composer who created many Disney hit songs, wanted to be a singer in the Bob Dylan style. He expressed displeasure that his soundtracks were associated with children's cartoons. His collaborations with Disney ultimately earned him more Oscars than any other person
APjx TIL if everyone in the world lived in Texas, the population density would be the same as it is in New York City.
waJ7 TIL of the Mountains of Kong, a West African mountain range that was charted on maps for nearly a hundred years. It was later discovered that the mountains never existed and were made up by the original cartographer.