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TIL There are between 5000 and 10,000 privately owned tigers in the USA

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w6GW TIL that Europeans did not know anything about potatoes, tomatoes, chili peppers, chocolate, corn, peanuts and vanilla until the “discovery” of the Americas.
VBKOm TIL that Brian Peck, a former dialogue coach and convicted sex offender, was pen pals with serial killer John Wayne Gacy. When Gacy was on death row, he sent Peck an autographed painting of a clown, which Peck framed in his house.
ggQb TIL women in Tajikistan consider unibrows beautiful. Women not blessed with hair between their eyebrows fake them with makeup.
9YZop TIL that in 2003, Republican Bob Ney changed French Fries to Freedom Fries in the Congressional cafeterias because of France's opposition to the proposed invasion of Iraq. The French reacted to this news by saying they focus on serious issues, adding that fries are in fact a Belgian invention.
jNKKa TIL that at the height of the space race, the US planned to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon as a display of America's Cold War muscle.