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TIL Kermit & Theodore Roosevelt Jr. were the first westerners to shoot a giant panda.

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P10Yw TIL that a bunch of bananas is called a hand and a single banana is called a finger
w1KM TIL during the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami on 26 December 2004, fishermen said they saw with their own eyes “the reality of generations of legends … the remains of ancient temples and hundreds of refrigerator-sized blocks, all briefly exposed before the sea swallowed them up again.”
M7Okb TIL the day before his Assassination, Julius Ceasar held a dinner party where he was asked what the best way to die would be. He responded that a sudden and unexpected death would be ideal. One of his assassins, Decimus, was sitting right across from him.
j67yR TIL that in the 17th and early 18th centuries, facial hair was thought to be a kind of bodily waste - specifically, the leftover by-product from sperm production - a kind of seminal excrement emerging from within the body.
grRoL TIL in most countries of the world, houseowners outnumber those who rent their homes. Germany and Switzerland are among the exceptions to this trend.