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TIL that caribou is simply the North American name for reindeer.

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0wvOv TIL that Donkeys can be used as guard animals to protect livestock and have even been known to kill coyotes.
vPmlr TIL a young Vietnamese woman named Phan Thi Mao was kidnapped and repeatedly abused by US soldiers in 1966, only one of the men decided to report the situation, all of the responsible people were convicted but eventually acquitted, this event later became known as the “incident on Hill 192”
rR1De TIL Blackbeard and his crew would lock themselves in the hold of the ship and light pots of sulphur to see who could last the longest without suffocating.
VBMv8 TIL cactus only grow naturally in the Americas and some can be found near the poles
7rdJr TIL the band Slayer released the album "God Hates Us All" on September 11th, 2001. Though it drew connections to the attacks suffered that day, the album was due to release months earlier, but was delayed to the the cover's explicit artwork.