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TIL that a lioness adopted and nursed leopard cub in Tanzania. No wild cat has ever been observed nursing a cub from another species – the event may be the result of the Tanzanian lioness having lost her own litter

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JYA94 TIL King Richard the Lionheart of England couldn't speak English and spent very little time in England.
mK5P TIL Texas charged a man who knew he was infected with HIV with assault with a deadly weapon after the man committed sexual assault. The court concluded that under Texas’ laws, infected semen could be considered a deadly weapon.
YEKv TIL it takes 75,000 trees to print a Sunday edition of the New York Times.
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