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TIL Pandas were carnivorous but they inexplicably lost their appetite for meat during evolution

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OoJp1 TIL that parts of Russia and Alaska are only separated by 2.5 mi (4.02 km).
YpveB TIL of the 1904 disaster of the burning and sinking of sidewheel passenger steamboat PS General Slocum. At the time of the accident, she was on a chartered run carrying members of St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church to a church picnic. An estimated 1,021 of the 1,342 people on board died.
b9jG9 TIL To call someone a goat (козёл) in Russia is one of the worst insults. It has a criminal connotation and people got harmed and even killed over it.
5VAOB TIL about Percivall Pott and his discovery of the connection between scrotal cancer and chimney sweeps caused by exposure to soot
5Ym78 TIL about the Russian Lykov family who remained isolated from society for over 40 years and when discovered were unaware WWII had taken place