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TIL that the U.S. is home to a single wild jaguar, and it lives in Arizona.

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9w0P7 TIL of Shinkolobwe, a mine located in the Haut-Katanga of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It produced the most economical Uranium that was used for the Manhattan Project and subsequent nuclear weapons produced by the United States in the 1940s and 50s.
R5Km8 TIL That the precursor to the CIA published a field manual for regular people in Occupied Europe to resist the Nazis at their regular jobs
5YKKn TIL of King's Lomatia, whose entire species consists of 500 identical clones in a 1.2 km area of Tasmania. The 44 thousand year old clonal colony “doesn’t do sex” and is dying out despite conservation attempts.
OojW4 TIL a German stranger in a street interview predicted Germany's 7-1 win over Brazil in 2014
oRakA TIL the 2nd longest wall in the world is located in Morocco. It's a 2700 km fortified sand barrier in Western Sahara known as the "Moroccan Western Sahara Wall" or the "Berm". Also it's the longest continuous minefield in the world.