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TIL despite Theodore Roosevelt giving his name to the “Teddy Bear” after refusing to kill one, his sons Kermit and Theodore Jr. are the first westerners to have shot a Giant Panda.

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P1xLw TIL The first reference to a space station in fiction was in 1869 and it was made from bricks.
NNQQ TIL that if you charge your smartphone every day for a year, it will cost you around 50 cents per year considering average electricity cost in the US.
5V1Bk TIL the leopard slug's mating ritual is strangely beautiful
OGVbY TIL that nearly half of the murders in USA go unsolved and without punishment
QNJQX TIL Emirates and Qatar Airways fly nonstop from Dubai and Doha to the US West Coast (San Francisco, Seattle and Los Angeles), coming within a few degrees of latitude of the North Pole