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TIL Kenny the “Down Syndrome” tiger was the result of deliberate inbreeding between rare brother and sister white tigers and most of his siblings were either stillborn or died very young.

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R9D1 TIL that a Gurkha Soldier of the Indian Army single handedly fought off 40 armed bandits with his knife killing 3 and injuring 8 to save a girl from getting raped during a train robbery in India.
69A5w TIL in September 1968, Russian cosmonauts fooled NASA into thinking they were landing on the moon using radio relays from Zond 5, the first spacecraft to orbit the moon. The cosmonauts knew they would never make it to the moon so they decided to engage in “a little bit of hooliganism.”
7r9Eb TIL hay bales can spontaneously combust if their moisture content exceeds 22%
rRpaw TIL in one comic, Superman turned Lois Lane Black for a day.
LQA50 TIL of Mal Meninga, whose political career lasted only 28 seconds