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TIL tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur
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[TIL] Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a written plea to Adolf Hitler asking him to stop Germany’s aggressive advances in Europe. Hitler responded with a televised conference mocking each point FDR made in a speech that lasted over 2 ½ hours.
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TIL of Grigori Perelman, a Russian mathematician who proved the Poincaré conjecture (one of the Millennium Prize problems). He later quit his job, turned down the $1 million prize as well as the Fields Medal, and is thought to have withdrawn from the field of mathematics entirely.
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TIL researchers made a 3-D virtual chest reconstruction of a 60,000-yr-old male Neanderthal skeleton called "Kebara 2" or “Moshe”. They found that he didn't have a hunched posture but would stand upright with a straight spine; he had a similar-size chest to humans today but greater lung capacity.
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TIL In Australia, there are a group of women, who dress in gold bikinis and feed expiring parking meters
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TIL Canada is planning to increase its population from 35 million to 100 million by 2100