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TIL There is an Island in the Bahamas Inhabited Only by Swimming Pigs

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BP0W TIL in 2012, thieves stole $30 million in maple syrup from Canada’s strategic maple syrup reserve
gMKRW TIL Michael Jordan had a clause in his contract called “For the Love of the Game” that allowed him to play basketball anytime, anywhere, for any reason.
VBm9m TIL Jesse and James from Pokemon got their name from Jesse James, an American outlaw from 1880s
RwJ8 TIL Genghis Khan killed enough people to cool the earth, 40 million people were killed and vast areas of farmland were reclaimed by forests
7rBXr TIL the Catholic Church’s legal system, called canon law, was the first modern Western legal system, and is still the oldest continuously functioning legal system in the West.