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TIL that there are around 1 million Racoons living in Germany. There was an attempt made in 1934 to introduce them by releasing a pair, but this attempt was seen as unsuccessful.A second population was established in eastern Germany in 1945 when 25 raccoons escaped from a fur farm after an airstrike

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BrVZy TIL that it took E. B. White 17 takes to read the death scene of Charlotte, as he recorded the audio version of his book Charlotte's Web. He is said to have walked outside, come back in, and start crying again when he got to that moment, "a grown man crying over the death of an imaginary insect."
b9wW9 TIL of tulip mania when in 1630's the price of one tulip bulb rose to about 20 years wages. Everybody got rich and then the last ones in went bankrupt.
yVb4e TIL about Shiniuzhai, a convenience store hanging on a cliff in Hunan, that’s been nicknamed “most inconvenient convenience store” in China
ewaD TIL that in 1969 when Sesame Street first started, it was actually aimed towards an older audience and was labeled “Adult Only”. Cookie Monster was smoking a pipe and Grover was participating in civil disobedience with hippies
6EmJw TIL Physics Laureate Gerard Muorou (2018, Short Pulse Lasers) accidentally revolutionized Ophthalmology when in 1993 a student, struck by the laser, miraculously suffered no damage as the pulse was amazingly short, lasting a femtosecond long. The laser than became the Standard-Bearer in Eye Surgery.