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TIL giant pandas can survive on bamboo only because of gut bacteria

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oRBLW TIL of the American caviar industry out of Caviar, NJ (1860s-1920s). One fisherman's canning process was so successful (using glass jars instead of kegs), he helped bring the method to canneries to Russia.
5JjB TIL in 1989 a Michigan farmer found a camera attached to balloons in his field. It contained images of what appeared to be a mutilated corpse, sparking a yearlong FBI investigation. It turned out to be footage for Nine Inch Nails’ first music video, filmed 200 miles away.
8RyX TIL that the Mighty Morphin Power Ranger’s command center is in Marilyn Manson’s “The Dope Show.”
KORLR TIL that after the opening of old Parliament House, over 9 500 pies were buried in a hole behind it when the crowds were smaller than expected (Australia)
Oorm1 TIL William Wrigley, founder of Wrigley’s Gum, invented direct mail marketing. In 1915 he mailed a pack of gum to every person in the phone directory in the United States.