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TIL If a wild boar gets loose in St. Paul or Minneapolis the Commissioner of Agriculture himself has to go out and capture that wild boar by law.

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gMp88 TIL of a baseball player who took out his false teeth to look more intimidating during games. During one game he put them in his hip pocket, and managed to bite himself on the ass when he slid into second base
XGEj TIL In the entire Lord of the Rings film trilogy, no two female characters ever speak to each other.
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