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TIL you can get a box of elephant poop sent to someone you dislike

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xV5L5 TIL that lung cancer risk after quitting smoking remains elevated for decades and stays more than threefold higher than never smokers after 25 years of quitting smoking.
m1LNy TIL female frogs play dead to avoid mating with males
gMdVL TIL that in 1956 the USAF used interceptors armed only with unguided rockets to try and shoot down a runaway target drone. All 208 rockets missed, starting bush fires as well as hitting buildings and cars in a nearby town. In total over 1,000 acres of land was burnt but there were no fatalities.
9Eop TIL the library of Congress is archiving every Americans tweet.
Ypw47 TIL German-American Billionaire Entrepreneur & Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel wrote an article in April 2009 stating that "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible"