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TIL Mountain lions, pumas, panthers, and cougars are all the same animal - the Puma Concolor

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x7Yk TIL in the online game EVE a player group spent 12 months infiltrating a rival group, then assassinated their leader and stole or destroyed $16,500.00 USD worth of game money and supplies.
NXQ7Q TIL: Henry Heimlich got to use the Heimlich maneuver in 2016, 40+ years after he invented it when a fellow senior in his living community was choking. He was 96 and while had demonstrated it countless times, he had never used it in a real scenario until then.
OXAX TIL a prison in Washington pairs up “death row” shelter cats with select inmates as part of a rehabilitation program.
pg0O TIL that Chicago had a huge heatwave in 1995 that killed hundreds, and that 41 victims’ bodies were never claimed. They were buried in a mass grave in Homewood, Illinois.
Wk479 TIL there will be a Hurricane Kyle if there are 11 named hurricanes or tropical storms in 2020