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TIL the scientific name for the American Bison is “Bison bison”

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AD61B TIL there is no such thing as "South Detroit". "South Detroit would be Windsor, ON, Canada.
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gMPob TIL North Korean “Ghost Ships” keep washing up on Japanese shores full of corpses.
wo6vY TIL: That in 1974, a man performed a highwire walk between the Twin Towers of the WTC in New York. Philippe Petit, a street artist from Paris, took 6 years to plan what he called "le coup" (heist). The feat was later described as the "artistic crime of the century".
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