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TIL that due to a popular anime cartoon, thousands of raccoons were imported from North America for Japanese children to keep as pets. When the cartoon’s protagonist later released his raccoon into the wild on the show, many of the pet owners did the same, creating chaos in the ecosystem to this day

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awJNo TIL The Help Celebrate Our 150th American Independence Day in 1926, Poland Presented President Coolidge with a birthday present to America as a big thank you for aid during WW1. The present was an 11 volume, 300,000 pages of 5.5 million (1/6 of population then) signatures from polish people.
kmrm TIL: In 1973, a man tried to rob a bank in Kenora Ontario with dynamite strapped to his chest. A police sniper shot him, detonating the explosives and blowing him up. He has never been identified.
M70aW TIL in 1780, in an event known as Dark Day, New England was cast into blackness as a result of Ontario wildfires mixed with unfavorable atmospheric conditions. Such was the lack of light, candles were needed in the day to provide illumination. Parts of New Hampshire were covered in ash 6" deep.
9YZPr TIL when humidity is 100% it means the air cannot hold any more water vapor. The result is sweat cannot evaporate into the air causing the temperature to feel hotter.
ZGLo TIL Jimmy Carter’s beer-chugging redneck younger brother Billy licensed his name to a beer brand in 1977. “Billy Beer” failed spectacularly because it was so awful. Billy said it was the reason he quit drinking.