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TIL the entire world's population could fit inside Los Angeles.

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97B6 TIL a man stole a Salvador Dali painting in full view of security cameras in broad daylight, mailed it back to the museum a week later, and was only caught because he had shoplifted a juice bottle a year prior, allowing police to match his fingerprints on the package to those on the bottle.
LkVBr TIL that the panther is not a species of its own. Panthers in Africa and Asia are simply melanistic leopards, while panthers in the Americas are melanistic jaguars.
gMnNW TIL Jackie Stallone, the mother of Sylvester Stallone, is an astrologer and an experienced rumpologist, a pseudoscience wich consist of reading the past and future on a person's buttocks.
b9rkQ TIL Jujube candies, a theater favorite, were invented in the early 18th century (1709 AD) - and are named after the date like Jujube fruit.
1mo4 TIL that the lyrics from The Byrds’ 1965 song ‘Turn! Turn! Turn!’ are taken almost verbatim from the book of Ecclesiastes, in the King James Bible.