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TIL There Are More Captive Tigers in The United States Than Tigers in the Wild

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R0Rl TIL that the death-sentanced murderer Joseph Paul Jernigan donated his body to science in 1994, and was then sliced horizontally into 1mm pieces for the purpose of creating a detailed data set of cross-sectional photographs of the human body.
mBoo TIL the average American eats approximately 1,500 PB & J sandwiches before graduating from high school
WkRv9 TIL The Roman – Persian wars are the longest in history, lasting over 680 years. They began in 53 BC and ended in 627 AD.
9g1M TIL Astronauts have to sleep near a ventilator fan or they risk suffocating in a bubble of their own exhaled carbon dioxide
p8Rr8 TIL It is so cold in Svalbard, they cannot properly bury anyone in a coffin, since the body won't decompose.