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TIL: The Japanese Raccoon Dog (tanuki) is not a raccoon but is a member of the dog family, related to wolves, foxes, etc.

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Y7dRr TIL Frankenstein's monster was a vegetarian
78o0Z TIL Arabian American Little League (Dhahran, KSA) went to the Little League World Series 17 times in 21 attempts (1987-2007). The league is comprised of American children whose parents work in Saudi Arabia.
lZpB TIL that when critics accused David Lee Roth of only writing songs about partying , women, and cars he realized he actually hadn’t written any songs about cars so he wrote “Panama”.
woJ9M TIL pentagrams have been found on Sumerian pottery dating back to 3500 BCE
8aEVa TIl of The “rural purge” of American television networks (in particular CBS) which was a series of cancellations in the early 1970s of still-popular rural-themed shows that led toward ones with supposedly more appeal to urban and suburban audiences.