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TIL that ancient sloth could be as large as an elephant

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p87eN TIL a bill was proposed in 1910 to release hippos into the Louisiana bayous, both as a way to clear out invasive river plants and solve a critical shortage of meat. It was backed by Former President Roosevelt and The New York Times, which praised hippo meat as tasting like "lake cow bacon."
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rRkvy TIL Eric Tigerstedt, the "Thomas Edison of Finland", was the first person to patent a "mobile phone", over a 100 years ago.