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TIL A company in India illegally dumping waste in the Mumbai River in India were cought when the waste was turning local stray dogs blue

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prrO TIL the Paraguayan War was so catastrophic for the male population of Paraguay, there were only 26,000 adult men left alive in the country at the end of the war. In addition, the F/M ratio in some areas were high as 20:1.
R7Gk7 TIL due to the lack of bees in Sichuan China. Human farmers are pollinating the flowers themselves. This is cheaper than buying bees and having them pollinate the flowers.
ymoe TIL of Peter Norman, the Australian sprinter who took third in the 1968 Olympics and the third athlete in the iconic black power photo. He was shunned in his home country from that moment on for his often unnoticed presence in the photograph.
KxWB TIL Dr. Seuss once wrote a Warner Bros. film called Going Home, that was banned because it accidentally predicted the Manhattan Project
0AlN TIL Mike Myers was sued by Universal Pictures for $3.8 million for backing out of a contract for a feature film. Myers said he refused to honour the $20 million contract because he did not want to cheat moviegoers with his poorly written script.