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TIL that white-tailed deer were hunted so much in the 18th and 19th centuries that only 300,000 or so were around by 1900; by 2000, the population had recovered to over 30 million

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BrOZb TIL that in the US at least, automobile safety — air bags, seat belts, etc.—is tested with female- and infant-sized crash test dummies as well as adult male sizes.
l7vja TIL "A League of Their Own" was inspired from real players and people in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPL)
YBoW TIL that a British tail gunner in WWII jumped out of a plane without a parachute rather than burn to death. He fell 18,000 feet and survived. He was captured and questioned by the Gestapo. They were so impressed, they issued him a certificate verifying the story.
7rEpx TIL that Japanese barberry (a common garden plant) has been shown to increase tick abundance and lyme disease. It is also an invasive species in America harming many local forests.
wokJ6 TIL that there are official guidelines for muslims to perform their rituals from space since 2007, when the first malaysian astronaut join the space station.