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TIL that the largest concentration of leopards in the world is on the outskirts of the city of Mumbai, with more than 22 million city residents living close by.

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rNdYx TIL earth used to have rings like Saturn, which eventually formed to create the moon
gyBW TIL Scientists put slime mold onto a model of a map of Tokyo, with food representing urban centers. After a day, it created a network almost identical to Tokyo’s actual rail network. Human designers created that network to be as efficient as possible; slime mold did the same, but without a brain
lor1N TIL that in the 1940s, Nazi Germany began printing millions of British pounds to destroy the British economy