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TIL that the word boner also means 'careless mistake' and was used mainly with that meaning in the past

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KORV6 TIL in 2013, a wild male tiger walked right up to a tiger enclosure at a zoo in India. Attracted by a captive female, the zookeepers let him in through a door in the enclosure. He stayed for a month, then escaped by jumping the fence, then returned a few weeks later.
e0Y55 TIL Poland broke Enigma over six years before WWII started and had built machines to automate it by 1938, long before Alan Turing improved the design.
QKGM TIL that the only countries in the world to use the Month-Day-Year format is the USA and Belize.
wLQmP TIL that in an experiment that trained rats to drive tiny cars by giving treats as a reward, rats ended up loving driving so much they’d do it without a reward
BKvL TIL that in China, a total of 55 crimes are punishable by death. Included in the list is everything from treason, robbery, rape, and cowardice.