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TIL that around 2,000 coyotes live in and around downtown Chicago. One GPS-collared coyote and his mate even raised a litter of healthy pups inside a secret concrete den in the parking lot of Soldier Field Stadium

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41Oa TIL composer John Williams has been nominated for 49 Academy Awards, a record for any living person.
XxWk TIL that Google will award $30M to the first privately funded teams to successfully 1) land a robot on the Moon, 2) navigate it for more than 500m on its surface, and 3) transmit back high-def videos and images of the feat. Countries like Brazil, Chile, India, Hungary have joined the competition.
XQ4E TIL in 1834 a 22-year old milkmaid from the swedish countryside was arrested in Stockholm for distrupting traffic by gathering large crowds with her beauty. Once released her beauty was so famous that it became a necessity for trendy aristocrats to pay her to display herself in their salons.
5xDQ TIL that the Austin, TX clock tower shooter left a suicide note saying he felt that there was something wrong with his brain as he knew what he was doing was wrong and couldn’t stop it. An autopsy revealed a brain tumor pressing on the amygdala.
WkxW4 TIL people have composed music specifically for cats, and cats actually seem to like it.