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TIL That according to scientists the South China Tiger is "functionally extinct" as one has not been spotted in the wild for over 25 Years, however a banker known as Stuart Bray has 19 of them held in captivity at the Laohu Valley Reserve in South Africa.

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4kV9o TIL about Ragamuffin Day, a celebration in the New York metro area in the late-1800s and early-1900s in which children wore costumes and went door-to-door asking for candy or money on Thanksgiving. It fell out of favor as trick-or-treating on Halloween gained acceptance in the 1940s and '50s.
6dyX TIL That after the 2006 Amish shooting that left 5 schoolgirls dead the parents of the girls went to the shooter’s house and comforted his widow. A fund was then set up for the widow’s family by the Amish community.
RMjl TIL Marvel & DC collaborated to create a universe that merged their superheroes. One of the more notable ones: Dark Claw, a combination of Batman & Wolverine.
mxewO TIL that the US accidentally created an artificial radiation belt around the earth in 1962, by detonating an hydrogen bomb in the upper atmosphere. It resulted in the destruction or damaging of 30% of the satellites in lower earth orbit, and knocked out electric devices 1 300 km away from the blast
1EZX TIL the cuneiform writing system, which was used by humans for millennia, was indecipherable for more than 2000 years. A British army officer decoded the language in 1837 after recording and studying symbols he found in Persian cliff-sides.