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TIL there are so many Thai restaurants in the USA because the Thai government paid for them.

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b67n7 TIL that Seahorses live in the Hudson River. Seahorses are found in temperate and tropical waters all over the world, including the Hudson River, which is home to the Lined Seahorse.
PY68n TIL that an distraught Elephant in India went on a retaliatory rampage, killing and even consuming multiple people after her calf was killed by villagers.
Vak4 TIL Net-casting spiders’ (Deinopidae) spiders eyes are more sensitive than cats or owls, which they use for hunting at night. So sensitive, in fact, that they need to rebuild their retinas every day because they are destroyed at dawn.
QWnE TIL that the movie “Poltergeist” used real skeletons because they were cheaper than buying props.
GYJDG TIL Charles Darwin never used the phrase “survival of the fittest” and actually argued against it.