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TIL There Exists An Australian Marsupial That Has 14 hour Marathon Orgy Sex Until Its Fur Falls Out, Goes Blind, Bleeds internally and Drops Dead

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j6xVN TIL: That the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission had planned to carve out an artificial harbor in Northern Alaska using buried nuclear explosions. The plan (Project Chariot) had a lot of public support and would have been carried out if the Inupiat village of Point Hope hadn't strongly opposed it.
0wlPA TIL that March was the medieval term for the borderlands where territories overlapped. Just as Counts ruled counties, Marches gave rise to titles like Marquis.
rNW9W TIL Edward Dando once ate 300 oysters with a loaf and a half of bread and butter in one sitting
KeB TIL that there are two known instances of beaches being stolen
M9B7 TIL of Bog Butter, animal fat that has been stored in North European swamps for thousands of years and is still edible.