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TIL that hyena poop is bright white due to the calcium in the large amount of bones they eat.

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OoxeL TIL There is an asteroid named 12796 Kamenrider after the Japanese tokusatsu series.
l7W6a TIL a man who fell overboard while fishing alone was rescued because a father and son found his empty boat and used the GPS to trace where he had fallen overboard
M7JEb TIL In 2009, two French and British nuclear ballistic missile submarines collided by chance in the Atlantic Ocean. They were moving so slowly that they couldn't have detected each other just a few feet apart.
4X08a TIL that according to a declassified document, the the Pentagon's intelligence agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, believes that remote viewing is real and that it aided them in capturing a ship with 6 tons of Thai marijuana on it.
xVxrk TIL Black Forest ham is a Protected Geographical Indication in the EU, requiring the ham to be traditionally and partially manufactured in the Black Forest region of Germany. However, the US and Canada do not recognize this, resulting in various qualities and types of ham being marketed as such.