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

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vyJR TIL: That if the same solar flare that hit the earth in 1859 were to hit today, it would cause TRILLIONS of dollars in communication and satellite disruptions and would be the largest natural disaster of all time.
6k4J TIL of the Sentinelese, an indigenous population that lives on North Sentinel Island. They have lived there virtually untouched by modern civilization for 1000’s of years. Any intruders on their island have been met with lethal hostility.
e0nLn TIL that even though we remember Nixon as a terrible president for Watergate, he was actually tremendously popular, and in his second election won 49 of the 50 states.
reDM TIL Death Note was banned in China in 2005. Students had been making Death Notes, writing the names of acquaintances, enemies, and teachers in the books.
WGwo TIL that Wikipedia had to ban IP’s from Congress to stop them from changing each other’s entries.