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TIL Hawaii is considered the bird extinction capital of the world - Since humans arrived, 95 of 142 bird species found nowhere else in the world have become extinct in Hawaii

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0wmdA TIL during the 1993 Yukon Quest sled dog race, musher Jeff Mann killed a moose with an axe after it attacked him and his dog team.
YnKv TIL Link was named so because he is the link between you and the game world
NXP1e TIL that the word kidnap is relatively recent and originally meant "to steal or carry off children or others in order to provide servants or labourers for the American plantations."
v1n8R TIL about the swiss battle tank Panzer 68: using the radio at full power would lead to erratic movements of the turret and switching on the heating system could fire the main gun
6R97 TIL Rene Rancourt, who has been singing both the American and Canadian National Anthem at Boston Bruins games for over 35 years, has never had a contract with the Bruins. According to him, “…I’ve always just shown up and I’ve become associated with the Bruins.”