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TIL a man was sentenced to 12 years in prison for killing and eating the last Indochinese tiger in China.

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E1mNW TIL, it's estimated that there are 6,000 shipwrecks distributed across all of the Great Lakes.
wL5JP TIL That if you make a hologram of a magnifying glass, the holographic version will magnify the other objects in the hologram, just like a real one.
Obx6 TIL the the first vending machine, invented in the first century, dispensed holy water.
QJBna TIL the 1959 film "The Tingler" was about a parasite that causes tingling sensations in victims. The films producers rigged surplus WWII aircraft motors to random theater seats, so viewers would "feel the tingler" when it attacked. Some viewers were also paid to pretend to scream and faint
jN76Q TIL of the once upper class Black community of Sugar Hill, Jacksonville, Florida. Chosen by city officials to be levelled - to build a multi-lane expressway through it during the 1950s and '60s - the community, once known for its elegance, sits devastated, largely boarded up and overgrown today.