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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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N7QaN TIL Steven Spielberg's father, Arnold Spielberg, built a his own ham radio from scraps when he was 15, became an early computer pioneer in the 1950s and recently celebrated his 103rd birthday!
4LGo TIL when reviewing the 1948 movie “Isn’t it Romantic,” reviewer Leonard Maltin simply replied “No” which is the shortest review ever given to a motion picture
45A5 TIL many german cities have artificial hills known as Schuttberge, created after WWII to deal with the debris of the destroyed buildings
4X1Jb TIL that an Indian painter biked from India to Sweden to meet the love of his life.
8aX9L TIL Malcolm X said that white people could not join his black nationalist Organization of Afro-American Unity, but "if John Brown were still alive, we might accept him." Brown was a famous abolitionist convicted and hanged for treason after attempting to lead a slave rebellion in 1859.