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TIL Pandas don’t breed well in captivity because both male and female giant pandas have to be interested in each other in order to mate

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p81kp TIL 'CQD' was the international distress symbol before 'SOS'
7J1M TIL out of all the words Dr. Seus made up, there are only 2 in the dictionary attributed to him: “grinch” and “nerd”.
OGZ54 TIL about an ancient African tradition where a murderer was punished by an assassin running into him with a spear which had meat on it. The murderer kept his mouth open. The murder victim's family decides if the murderer is killed by the spear or fed the meat (forgiven)
4LQo TIL that if the successor to the Crown in Britain converts to Catholicism ,they are legally deemed to have died.
wodLP TIL - in 1945 a +-million landlords were executed for the crime of being landlords, and the land redistributed to the people. There was no economic/real estate/housing crash. Turns out, landlords are unnecessary.