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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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KOONw TIL of the Eyre highway in Australia. With distances of up to 720km between towns and a 140km section without a single bend, the longest straight road in the world.
GbEQ TIL the “wall follower” is the best-known rule for solving mazes. If the maze is “simply connected”, that is all its walls are connected together or to the maze’s outer boundary, then by keeping one hand in contact with one wall of the maze the solver is guaranteed not to get lost.
x6JD1 TIL that in 1948 the Idaho Dept of Fish and game parachuted 76 beavers into the Chamberlain Basin in Central Idaho
8aYob TIL lenses implanted in the eye following cataract surgery, are the result of a surgeon realizing shrapnel from a WW2 windshield lodging in a pilot's eye did not cause an infection or show signs of tissue rejection.
5dpn TIL a dog bit off his owner’s big toe because she could smell it was infected, and ended up saving his life