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TIL a cow-bison hybrid is called a Beefalo.

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A9Nw TIL During the aftermath of 9/11, Search and Rescue dogs found so few living people, that it caused them great stress because they believed they had failed. Handlers and Rescue workers had to regularly hide in the rubble in order to give the rescue dogs a successful find, and keep their spirits up.
xV7bD TIL that two brothers painstakingly hand made a large collection of Pokemon cards because they were too poor to buy them.
WkGrX TIL that various species of venomous viperid snakes (AKA rattlesnake) are native to different regions of the Americas, from Canada down to Argentina
wDZW TIL Norway reserves the right to repurchase Orkney and Shetland (and its billions in oil reserves) for a fixed sum of gold and silver, worth around £800k
eXMJ TIL Henry Ford was a big admirer of Adolf Hitler, and continued to do business with in Nazi Germany, including building war materiel and using French POWs as slave labor. Hitler also admired Ford, keeping a life size portrait of him next to his desk.