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TIL that for 70 years a bunch of New Zealanders have continued to fervently believe that moose still live on the South Island of NZ despite no actual sightings since 1952 - the mystery has been compared to Bigfoot

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kOGEd TIL Dodge makes both the #1 and the #2 on the list of the 2016-18 cars that are most likely to be stolen - the Charger HEMI and the Challenger SRT Hellcat.
wL0X1 TIL that the Ethiopia uses the Coptic Calendar which is seven to eight years behind the Gregorian Calendar, meaning it is currently 2012.
gLp8 TIL after Muhammad Ali had won his match against George Foreman in the “Rumble in the Jungle” fight in Africa, he was asked by a reporter what he thought of Africa. Ali responded, “Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat!”
001M TIL Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, “admitted to defrauding citizens by organizing mad gold-digging expeditions and also to claiming to possess dark or ‘necromantic’ power” 4 years before discovering “The Book of Mormon”
8akRG TIL Francisco Goya, depressed and having survived 2 life threatening illnesses in his later years, decorated his house with 14 "black paintings" with bleak themes. The famous "Saturn Devouring His Son" was a mural in his dining room