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TIL Minnesota’s has lost more than 50% of their moose populations since the mid-2000s, with a brain worm being one of the main factors leading to their deaths.

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1aO7D TIL the USA only ranks #43 in a list of countries by home ownership rate (64.5%). Romania is 1st with 96.4%.
yRXv TIL an 8 year old boy had his arm bitten off by a shark in Florida in 2001. The boys uncle wrestled the shark to shore, the arm was pried out of the shark’s mouth, and surgeons reattached the limb to the boy after an 11 hour operation.
Lklpp TIL Jim Henson’s original version of Kermit the Frog was a madman who murdered his friend over and over again for not liking coffee.
5Vvxp TIL that the concept of machines “hallucinating” was first noted in 1995. A researcher discovered that a neural network could create phantom images and ideas after it was randomly disturbed. This happened years before the term was applied to modern AI generating false content.
8eJMZ TIL that before becoming famous as a General in the Union Army, William T. Sherman was the first superintendent of Louisiana State Seminary, which went on to become Louisiana State University.