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TIL that white truffle hunters are extremely secretive about their business. They park their cars miles away from their hunting sites at ungodly hours along with their dogs which they protect with their lives. Not even the family members are let in on the secret.

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LnEp TIL about a match between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal where they played on a court which had clay surface on one side and grass on the other. At that time, Federer was undefeated on grass courts for 5 years and Nadal was undefeated on clay for 3 years.
5VWMD TIL that an Australian man survived a wildfire by scuba diving in his friend’s pool while the fire raged around him
kOyMg TIL of the “smoosh method”, a way of introducing two chinchillas to each other by placing them both in a small cage they can’t move in so they don’t attack each other
WkEao TIL that during WW1, explosions in France were heard in London. A team of miners worked in secret to dig tunnels under the German trenches during the war in order to plant and detonate mines. The detonations were so great, the sound was often heard in London, 140 miles away.
KxDR TIL that the directors for Guardians of the Galaxy wrote a script with actual dialogue for Vin Diesel so that he would know what inflections to give when he said his lines as “I am Groot”.