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TIL that lions are native to India and that the last ones in Asia are found in Gir national park

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d8JOE TIL the 2002 D.C. sniper shootings were part of a plan by John Allen Muhammad to kill his ex wife. By the time he was caught, he had killed 17 random people, so she’d look like just one more random victim
nWeaW TIL Blockbuster Video's attempt to enter Japan in the early '90s failed due in part to their business strategy of "Wholesome Home Entertainment" not accounting for the popularity in Japan of extreme horror films, or the fact that adult entertainment accounted for 35% of the Japanese video market
VVKk TIL Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard ordered the murders of the four defectors who leaked the church’s upper-level classified scriptures. He once fired blanks into the audience at one of his lectures to demonstrate how his church “audits” its critics.
ZnQ TIL that estimates for the amount of time Bill Murray’s character is trapped in the perpetual Groundhog Day range up to 34 years.
OoAgY TIL The Kiwi fruit is not from New Zealand, it’s from China. It was the New Zealand farmers who named it Kiwi fruit so they could market it.