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TIL there are more tigers privately owned by US citizens than in the wild worldwide.

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8YXG TIL that many invertebrates like crustaceans feel pain.
9Y1EB TIL “Whoever [...] unlawfully secretes, destroys, detains, delays, or opens any letter[...] or mail,[...] delivered from any post office or station thereof established by authority of the Postmaster General or the Postal Service, shall be fined [...] or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”
EgdYx TIL that "death masks" (casts made of a person's face after they died) were worn by actors and paid mourners at the person's own funeral. At one funeral, 6000 people were wearing the dead person's face mask.
5Y96R TIL: That 'Aryan' and 'Iran' and 'Iranian' all come from the same word, and some of the 'purest' of Aryans are Kashmiri, Romani Gypsies and Punjabi.
YpEWB TIL about Self-plagiarism, when you reuse portion of your own work without acknowledging that you're doing so or citing the original work.