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TIL all pandas are owned by China. They rent them out to zoos for $1mil/year each with minimum of 10 years

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g5yL TIL that exercising makes you both more productive and happier for the day that you exercise. It affects your brain function and memory, and the positive effect lasts for the entire day.
68yw TIL that a minor league baseball player was once traded away for 10 bats, and he died six months later from a drug overdose.
oRRWE TIL aestivation is a state of animal dormancy, like hibernation, although taking place in the summer not the winter
MeAGK TIL, in a small Japanese seaside town, there is an underwater mailbox. The town's former postmaster built it together with the local diver community to put their small town of Susami on the map and boost tourism. And, it worked. It's in the Guinness book of world records.
v17gx TIL Margaret Clitherow (died 1586) was executed for the crime of harboring Catholic priests, at a time when it was a capital offence by the Jesuits, etc. Act 1584. Although still pregnant with her fourth child, she was crushed to death by her own door.