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TIL Tigers in the Sundarbans region of India and Bangladesh have been known to hunt and kill humans. Until recently, it is estimated that these tigers got 3% of their calories from eating humans.

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x66Xb TIL of Palenquero, a Spanish-based creole spoken in the Colombian town of San Basilio de Palenque that mixes Spanish with Kikongo, a language spoken in the Congo region of Africa. It is the last Spanish-based creole language of its kind in Latin America.
XEjQj TIL Will Ferrell played on 10 different MLB teams in one day
xGYo TIL in 1983 a preserved head was discovered at a bog in Lindow Moss. Believing the remains to be his former wife, Peter Reyn-Bardt confessed to murdering her in 1960. When testing later found the head was from 250AD, Reyn-Bardt tried to revoke his confession but was still convicted of her murder.
e07mJ TIL Candace Newmaker, a child with "behavioral problems," was taken from her birth parents, adopted, and placed in controversial "rebirth therapy"... she was suffocated for 70 minutes and declared brain-dead afterwards
VLmQ TIL a Samurai became a ‘Ronin’ if he didn’t commit 'seppuku’ (ritualistic suicide) following the death of his master