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TIL Haiti is the first and only nation established as the result of a successful slave revolt.

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WkoDd TIL that the 1990s PBS game show "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego" was created in response to a National Geographic survey stating that 1 in 4 Americans could not locate the Soviet Union or The Pacific Ocean
XE8XR TIL NBA player George Hill owns an 850-acre ranch in Texas filled with kangaroos, zebras, ostriches, wildebeests, elk, antelope, Arabian oryx, red lechwes, New Zealand red stags, kudus, and other exotic animals
xVOpB TIL:-Sandeep Singh was born at Shahabad town of Kurukshetra, Haryana state of India.
epRQn TIL of Ymir, the grandfather of all Nordic gods who drank from a cosmic hornless cow rich in milk and gave birth to a male and female from his armpits. Odin, his grandson, would later kill him and fashion the world from his body.
grEeD TIL that the species of bear depicted on the California State Flag has been extinct since 1924. Similar in size to the Kodiak Bear, the California Grizzly Bear was aggressive, commonly weighed over 1,000 pounds, averaged 8 ft tall and could run 35 mph.