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TIL that sea otters have the densest fur of the animal kingdom with about 1,000,000 hairs per square inch.

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neNrB TIL that Nigeria has a space program and has successfully launched several satellites into orbit.
57jn TIL that a series of experiments by psychologists at the University of California Berkeley and the University of Toronto showed that upper class people are less charitable and more likely to cheat.
9YPj7 TIL when the Northridge Earthquake caused a massive power outage in L.A. in 1994, panicked residents called 911 to express alarm about a strange ethereal light overhead; they were seeing the Milky Way Galaxy for the first time.
N9wJ TIL the same guy invented Pizza Hut’s Stuffed Crust Pizza, McDonald’s McGriddles and Dollar Menu, and the Smashburger restaurant chain
VMRx0 TIL in 2013 a local tv station anchor read the names of 4 pilots involved in a crash landing for Asiana Flight 214 into SFO from a telepromptor as Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk, and Bang Ding Ow, without realizing the names were obvious trolling. Four members of the station lost their jobs.