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TIL Pablos Escobar imported 4 hippos for his private zoo. Today there are close to 80 hippos living wild in Columbia.

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woe88 TIL that Japanese great tits have a unique alarm call for crows, martens and snakes
ADB9o TIL that today, August 22, is the feast day of St. Guinefort, the Dog Venerated as a Saint
8ka TIL there is an international treaty called the Convention on the Rights of the Child which says all children are born with fundamental rights and freedoms equal to that of all human beings. Only two governments have not signed: The United States and Somalia.
9EEG TIL although Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” outsold any other book of its time, he didn’t make any profit, instead donating the sales to buy mittens for the troops in the American Revolution
6kWw TIL that only one nation in the world has mandatory and enforced with fines, helmet laws for all bicyclists. New Zealand.