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TIL wasps can be trained to detect bombs.

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W7ge4 TIL that the tallest tree ever measured wasn’t actually a redwood. It was an Australian mountain ash. Which was recorded at a height of over 130 meters!
9D7r TIL that a giant “WELCOME TO CLEVELAND” sign on a rooftop in the flight path of a Milwaukee airport has been causing “panic and outrage” to passengers arriving by air for over 37 years. The creator’s reasoning: “Living in the world is not a dress rehearsal. You better have fun with it.”
xVxY5 TIL that residents of Virginia are not required to have insurance on their vehicles. You can pay $500 and "drive at your own risk"
0Ej TIL after a student was suspended for wearing their t-shirt, Korn donated hundreds of shirts to be given out and police officers helped to do so
neROb TIL the original ending to Pinocchio was intended to be a warning, with the young puppet boy's companions executing him by hanging him from a tree for his crimes.