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TIL the Mughal Emperors of India kept over 1,000 tamed cheetahs for use in hunting. Because cheetahs do not breed in captivity this caused their extinction in India.

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JYR8v TIL that The Beatles had a specific clause in their contract that stated that they would not ever have to play for a segregated audience.
9w80X TIL, 14 year old math Olympiad perfect scorer has been missing for 21 years, leaving a single note behind.
vEg4 TIL the Chinese have a version of Bigfoot/Yeti/Sasquatch called the Yeren – and there is Youtube footage of a supposed half-human/half-Yeren from a remote Chinese village
OGYO4 TIL that in the 1960s, the US roasted a 1440-acre swath of Wisconsin forest with ~10,000 curies of radiation for 6 months in order to determine how it affected the area. Most of the damage was confined to the area directly adjacent to the source, and the area is completely non-hazardous today.
p88kp Street names aside, who comes up with crazy non-words like Zyrtec, tenofovir and Xeljanz?