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TIL Big Cats coexist with humans in only two major metropolitan regions in the world - Mumbai and Los Angeles

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JYB4l TIL Muhammad Ali was stripped of his heavyweight title and faced a five-year prison term, at the height of the Vietnam War for refusing to fight. "I ain't got no quarrel with those Vietcong, they never called me n****r."
6EMO8 TiL the first time Germany bombed a civilian target during WWII was an accident. The retaliation led to the Blitz, which was actually great for Britain because the RAF air fields had almost been completely put out of action by Luftwaffe action up to that point and Hitler changed targets.
reaw TIL Jay Jackson (Perd Hapley from Parks and Rec) was an award winning newscaster in real life before getting into acting where he would mainly play… a newscaster/reporter.
5V5WQ TIL that in 2009 a man checked into a hotel in Sligo, Ireland, gave a fake name and paid in cash. He then got rid of all his possessions and sadly completed suicide. He had cut out all the tags from his clothes so nobody is even sure what country he was from. The case is still unsolved today.
wLbeY TIL Human sperm doesn’t wiggle as previously thought, it spins like a “playful otter”