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TIL: We don’t actually know who named Earth.

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8eedL TIL that there are around 1 million Racoons living in Germany. There was an attempt made in 1934 to introduce them by releasing a pair, but this attempt was seen as unsuccessful.A second population was established in eastern Germany in 1945 when 25 raccoons escaped from a fur farm after an airstrike
mEnR TIL Women don’t have a higher pain threshold than men, and that at a biological level both are the same.
4XEW6 TIL the most decorated American unit in history is the 442nd Infantry Regiment, which was almost entirely made up of Japanese Americans. Out of the 14,000 who served, 9,486 earned the Purple Heart and 21 earned the Medal of Honor. The unit itself was awarded 8 Presidential Unit Citations.
DaJP TIL Bill Murray once got lost in the jungles of Bali on a motorbike. He was later found putting on an impromptu show with all of the locals of a small village in attendance, even though he didn’t speak Balinese.
BgLBL TIL the cost to procure a drone for US Dept of the Interior ballooned from $2,600 in 2020 to $15,000 in 2023 (page 6)