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TIL the first westerner to shoot a Giant Panda was none other than Teddy Roosevelt.

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7rraL TIL that "ye olde shoppe" is a distortion of "Þe olde shoppe": English used to have a character for "th": Þ
G01N TIL during the siege of Stalingrad the commanding officer Friedrich Paulus was promoted to Field Marshal with the expectation he commit suicide rather than surrender. After he surrendered he was heard saying “I have no intention of shooting myself for a Bohemian corporal”. He lived till 1957.
b6QZj TIL that In 1947, engineers working on the Mark II computer at Harvard University found a moth stuck in one of the components. They taped the insect in their logbook and labeled it "first actual case of bug being found." The words "bug" and "debug" soon became a standard part of programming.
NXmZQ TIL a New Jersey man won the lottery for $315 million after his wife made him return a $5 bottle of orange juice because “it was on sale for $2.50 elsewhere.” He used the change to buy two lottery tickets and one of them was the Powerball jackpot.
4km1w TIL of Jupiter's moon, Ganymede, which is larger than Mercury, has a liquid metal core, and is presumed to have more subsurface water than all of Earth's oceans combined