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TIL that Jackrabbits are hares

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0dR9p TIL about the existence of the European Green Belt - an 8,500km long natural strip of wild forests and national parks connecting the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic Sea
d8WbB TIL Killer Whales don't attack/eat people and the deaths caused by Orcas in captivity might have been caused by "playing too rough" or "stress".
gMam8 TIL the mathematician Paul Erdős regularly used amphetamines to increase his mathematical output. His friend bet him he couldn't stop using them for a month - Erdős won the bet but claimed that it had caused mathematics to be set back by a month.
GY7L1 TIL a Corned Beef Sandwich was smuggled onto Apollo 16, resulting a review of the incident by Congress.
gMOEL TIL: As part of her sentence for abandoning 35 kittens in the woods, an Ohio woman was ordered to spend a night alone in the woods without water, food, or entertainment.