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TIL there is a 109° F difference between the record high and record low for the month of February in Wichita, Kansas

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M7RgB TIL that 90% of indigenous people of Americas were wiped out because of "disease". Not because of technological advances of europeans which was my previous belief.
4Xg1b TIL A maximum-security prison in Uganda has a soccer league (run and played by prisoners), with an annual soccer tournament. The tournament is taken very seriously; they have a uniforms, referees, cleats, and a 30-page constitution. The winning team gets prizes such as soap, sugar, and a goat.
e0B84 TIL ferrets are trained and used to help pull electrical wiring through hard-to-reach places
ANaJg TIL that when epidemiologist Tamara Safonova and virologist Alexandra Sheboldaeva discovered Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus in 1937, they were accused of spreading the virus themselves and sentenced to 18 years in Soviet labor camps.
6E09Z TIL that registrations of Chihuahuas actually DECREASED after those “Yo Quiero Taco Bell” commercials in the 90s