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TIL in 1948 Idaho decided to airdrop beavers into wilderness areas using army surplus parachutes when they had outgrown their other habitats.

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b6yga TIL: All 5 of the original Super Mario Bros. development team members have been involved in the development of every core Mario game for the last (nearly) 40 years.
Qpke TIL That president Richard Nixon pardoned a lieutenant, who gathered 70-80 Vietnamese civilians into a ditch and murdered them during the My Lai massacre, from his sentence of house arrest.
J1Bml TIL of Tilikum (Tilly) - a killer whale responsible for 3 of the 4 recorded human deaths by a captive killer whale.
d8BK TIL helium-3, an isotope commonly found in space (but not on Earth) could solve clean energy.
N7R5E TIL In 2001 Shaquille O'Neal made a hip-hop album produced by Dr. Dre and others, that has never been released.