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TIL raccoons wash their food yo soften it because they don’t have saliva glands.

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ADo1g TIL the Library of Congress has multiple crowdsourcing projects where anyone can help digitize historical documents. Active projects include transcribing letters and other writings from Rosa Parks, Susan B. Anthony, and Walt Whitman.
ARl7 TIL Hitler didn’t hate ALL the Jews. He protected one of them and named him “the noble Jew”.
xgEg TIL that Sandra Bullock was the first person to win a Golden Raspberry Award (given for worst film) and an Oscar in the same weekend. She collected both.
xVMeb TIL that lemurs, flying foxes and narrow-striped mongooses got to the Madagascar by rafting there, according to scientists.
VMoy8 TIL that there used to be rat fishing tournaments in an ally behind a saloon in Baltimore. Men would rig fishing poles with traps and bait, cast them down the ally and try and catch the largest rat.