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TIL of Bongthingism, an ancient polytheistic religion of the Lepcha people, of Nepal, Bhutan and India

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BY0K TIL of Annie Dookhan, a chemist in a drug testing lab who tampered with 40,000+ samples resulting in thousands of innocent people being put in prison
nWNdo TIL that safety concerns of the Jules Rimet Trophy during WWII led Ottorino Barassi, who was FIFA vice-president at the time, to remove the trophy from a bank and hide it in a shoebox under his bed. The trophy stayed safe under Barassi’s bed until the World Cup returned after WWII in 1950 in Brazil.
16grD TIL There are an estimated 26 million sheep in New Zealand. The total human population in New Zealand is 5.1 million people. That's 5 sheep for every human in New Zealand.
0d1N1 TIL: Over 60% of polar bears live in Canada
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