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TIL that in 1910 the United States almost introduced wild hippopotami into Louisiana to get rid of water hyacinth

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OxG4 TIL that Jesse Owens was the 10th child in a poor family. The day after his 5th birthday he developed a large fibrous bump on his chest. As they couldn’t afford a doctor, his mother used a sterilized kitchen knife to carve into his chest and remove a golf-ball sized growth.
R7K5l TIL that huskies need to train to be better distance runners. While the average pet husky can only run between 10 to 20 miles a day, a well-conditioned race husky can run for 11 hours straight making up to 125 miles. They can repeat this distance for up to 10 days in a row.
aNmZ TIL that a big part of Japanese school lunches is teaching schoolchildren food nutrition and are prepared with local produce, supporting local farmers. Famous chefs are also roped in to prepare special lunches to get feedbacks from children on what to improve on cooking for picky eaters.
N7688 TIL an average cloud weighs over 1 million pounds
4kg95 TIL The chess game notation standard, PGN, has a specific game termination tag, "death", in the case that the game was terminated by one of the players dying.