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TIL there were no pigs in North America until Europeans arrived.

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wOB8 TIL when Rodney Dangerfield died they held a Native American butterfly-release ceremony hosted by Farrah Fawcett.
wox8E TIL that there’s a lake in Antarctica so salty it never freezes, even at -58°F.
69al TIL Mark Wahlberg turned down a starring role in Brokeback Mountain because he was “a little creeped out” by the homosexual themes and sex scene.
RoeQ TIL the Fahrenheit system was designed with the freezing point of brine as 0 degrees, 32 degrees as the freezing point of water, and 96 degrees as the temperature of the human body. The difference between 32 and 96 was useful for instrumentation at the time (64 can be bisected 6 times).
m1rBx TIL that EU plans to subsidise small-scale sustainable farming and young farmers