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TIL tigers can seek revenge when they have been wronged and are very vengeful

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Ol6X TIL midway through the Great Irish Famine (1845–1849), a group of Choctaw Indians collected $710 and sent it to help the starving victims. It had been just 16 years since the Choctaw people had experienced the Trail of Tears, and faced their own starvation.
075j TIL the European Assoc. of Urology developed an Erection Hardness Score (EHS) to quantify the level of erection hardness on a scale of one to four. As described by one researcher: Level 1 is like tofu; Level 2 is like a peeled banana; Level 3 is like an unpeeled banana; Level 4 is like a cucumber.
aKNZ TIL school teachers have been using red ink to correct assignments for at least 3900 years
xkao TIL All polar bears alive today can trace their ancestry back to one female brown bear who lived in Ireland
VBmA0 TIL when making the cover art for Pink Floyd's 1976 album "Animals," a 12-meter large inflatable pig broke loose and floated over Heathrow, causing flights to be canceled. The pig eventually landed in a farmer's field in Kent, scaring the cows.