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TIL that the United States is currently under 42 different national emergencies, one of which dates from 1979.

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wnPP TIL during the late 1800s a baboon was employed by the railroad as a signalman. He never once made a mistake and worked for the railroad until his death.
loV85 TIL about Jules Chéret father of the modern poster printing leading the birth of the industrialised harvesting of attention.
6EVKJ TIL in Japan people eat fried maple leaves as a snack
l7nbB TIL that there are more brown bears (around four times) on the Japanese island of Hokkaido than in all of the contiguous United States
ONA6 TIL 44% of the people who didn’t evacuate for Hurricane Katrina stayed because they didn’t want to abandon their pets, this prompted major changes to state and federal laws regarding the evacuation of pets during disasters.