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TIL after tigers escaped from a zoo in Georgia and killed a man, advice was issued on what to do if you meet a tiger, including: don’t approach it, don’t run away, and don’t urinate

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R7X0l TIL that while in charge of the MESAN political party, President for Life Jean-Bédel Bokassa appointed Elisabeth Domitien to serve as the prime minister of the Central African Republic, making her Africa's first female head of government.
R5Y8a TIL Danny DeVito directed a horror film starring William Fichtner and the late Lance Reddick entitled "St. Sebastian". Completed in 2012, it has never been released and is currently DeVito's last feature film directing credit.
R5JEl TIL one of the oldest forms of binary numbers and encoding were found in the Chinese work I Ching from the 9th century BC. 0 represented Yin and 1 represented Yang, and combinations of the two would be used to categorize all things, intended to allow diviners to use random numbers to tell the future
0dm9p TIL when Arnold Schwarzenegger auditioned for the movie Hercules in New York (his film debut), his agent said he had years of "stage" experience, implying theater, when he had only appeared on bodybuilding stages.
8XYV TIL that in order to protect his garden, a retired French doctor infected the rabbits with myxomatosis virus. The virus later resulted in a 98% decline in rabbit population in Europe. As a consequence predators like Iberian Lynx’s population also declined.