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TIL that there have been sightings in East Asia of tigers with blue or gray fur. They are known as “Maltese Tigers”

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Brnde TIL about Naomi Ishakawa Foote, who at 14 years old intentionally shot her classmate, Jason Hood, in 1991 after he harassed her. The next year she was interviewed by Oprah.
1aZyP TIL that the inventor of Vaseline, who lived to be 96, swore that eating a spoonful of Vaseline each morning was beneficial to health.
loBrA TIL that before WWI Kaiser Wilhelm tried to impress Queen Wilhelmina of Holland by telling her "My guards are seven feet tall and yours are only shoulder-high to them." her reply was, "Quite true, Your Majesty, your guards are seven feet tall. But when we open our dikes, the water is ten feet deep!"
0Gop TIL corn [maize] needs to be cooked in limewater before its nutrients can be absorbed into the human body. While Native Americans knew this, early New World colonial settlers did not, which resulted in many deaths from malnutrition for those who using it as a staple food.
PYL9n TIL rapper Bizzy Bone, who was abducted by his step-father as a child, was reunited with his mother after a neighbor recognized a photo of him shown at the end of the 1983 broadcast of the TV movie ‘Adam’ which was based on the abduction and murder of America’s Most Wanted host John Walsh’s son.