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TIL Leonardo DiCaprio donated $1,000,000 to the Wildlife Conservation Society at Russia’s tiger summit, causing Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to describe him as a “muzhik” or “real man”

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nerZ9 TIL about Utsuro-Buno, a Japanese legend about an unknown object washing ashore in Hitachi in1803. Inside there was a young woman who spoke an unknown language and who was carrying a small box which she didn't let anyone touch.
w4jY TIL The internet speed at NASA is 91Gb per second. Making it 2,000 times faster than the average household connection speed of 50Mb.
D1mkV TIL the faces on Mount Rushmore are only 60ft tall.
R7bQj TIL the phrase "eat the rich" is attributed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who is reported to have once said "When the people have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich."
xVkK5 TIL There was a Canadian ad campaign for "Diamond Shreddies", which were just the original square Shreddies, rotated 45°.