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TIL Yellowstone National Park allows visitors to spread loved one's ashes over the park via airplane

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a8B40 TIL a man in 2005 successfully negotiated a series of online trades that got progressively more valuable, ending when he traded an acting role in a movie for a two-story farmhouse. The man started the series of trades with a paperclip.
Zv6p TIL that an Australian tree can drop 22 pounds(10kG) heavy cones without warning
OoJWL TIL Tardigrades, or water bears, were filmed mating for the first time in 2016 by German researchers. The female lays eggs, the male gets into position (a process that can be several minutes); they engage in mutual stimulation till the male ejaculates his semen into the female's outer layer of skin.
xlrg TIL during WWII, British forces dressed a dead hobo in a general’s uniform and planted “top secret documents” on his body, detailing a fictional invasion through Greece. They then caused the body to wash up on an Italian beach, in an attempt to mislead German high command. It worked.
PYYVZ TIL that the British captured an American ship, set it on fire, and sailed it over the Niagara Falls.