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TIL Panther is not a single species but is a term that is most often used to describe a black jaguar or a black leopard.

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rR7my TIL that prior the 1800’s, the use of the word “Propaganda" was commonly associated with the Vaticans “pontifical administration” to further Catholicism in third world countries.
VM6VB TIL about Ashley's Sack. Ashley, a slave, was sold at nine years old. Her mother provided a cotton sack as a parting gift. Telling her "it be filled with my love always", it contained a tattered dress, a handful of pecans, and a braid of her mother's hair.
VMwLB TIL that the giant Sequoia trees that grow famously in California are also flourishing in GERMANY!
OoRX4 TIL that a 1965 test subject survived a leaky suit in a vacuum chamber but felt water on his tongue begin to boil.
x6jMb TIL that theoretically, the Earth costs $5 quadrillion and a human life costs $10 million