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TIL the largest population of tigers in the world is in the USA. The number of tigers in captivity now exceeds that of wild tigers.

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9YVwQ TIL Like humans, octopuses want more hugs when high on ecstasy.
KO6dG TIL Hideo Kojima, creator of Metal Gear Solid, wanted to coat the disks of his 1988 game Snatcher in a paint that would smell like blood when heated in the computer, to recreate the smell of a murder scene
E9A7 TIL there is a live stream with which you can watch bears fish for salmon in Alaska (and a bunch of other stuff)
QJ79p TIL between 1929 and 1932 Ford went from selling 1,507,132 cars in a year to selling just 210,824 of them.
wRQ6 TIL humans hadn’t detected any planets outside of our solar system until 1991, just 26 years ago. Before then, we had no evidence that planets existed around any other star in the universe.