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TIL that Theodore Roosevelt once supported a bill that would have allowed the introduction of Hippos into the Bayous of Louisiana. It fell just short of being passed.

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d9wj TIL that wild almonds are poisonous. It’s only the ones we’ve been selectively breeding for centuries that we can eat.
Oorx4 TIL Canada has over 56 percent of the world's coastline. Canada's coastline has an overall length of 202,080 kms (125,567 miles)
x4V0 TIL a man named Poon Lim survived 133 days at sea on an 8 square foot raft after his ship was sunk by a U-boat. To stay alive he drank the blood of animals he caught and at one point killed a shark with a jug of water.
OG0K7 TIL of Cockaigne, an imaginary land of plenty in medieval myth, where physical comforts and pleasures are always immediately at hand. In Cockaigne, abbots are beaten by their monks, nuns are flipped over to show their bottoms, and the skies rain cheese.
ANwB4 TIL the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown was heavily damaged after destroying a Japanese aircraft carrier during the first carrier battle in history. After 48 hours of emergency repairs, it ended up helping destroy two more carriers before being sunk and inadvertently saved the other US carriers.