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TIL Black Panther isn’t a distinct animal, but is a mutated form of a leopard or jaguar

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vPg9K TIL The sinking of the USS Panay and 3 Standard Oil tankers carrying 600 fleeing Chinese civilians ships during the battle of Nanking in 1937. 3 americans and an unknown number of Chinese civilians would die. FDR would order footage of the sinking edited to lower Japanese culpability and avoid war.
wL9O1 TIL that the iconic "eagle scream" we all know is actually the redtailed hawk's cry
9wAer TIL of Tilt Cove in Newfoundland, the smallest town in Canada with a population of 4-5 inhabitants.
78OpM TIL that the origin of the term ‘BullShit’ dates back to the 17th century. “Bull", meaning nonsense, while the term "bullshit" has been used as early as 1915 in British and American slang and came into popular use during WWII. "bull" from the Old French bole, meaning "fraud, deceit".
NXlme TIL the 1997 game Redneck Rampage included a licensed soundtrack from Southern rock and rockabilly bands like Reverend Horton Heat and Mojo Nixon. It was one of the first PC games to use real regional music instead of generic background tracks.