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TIL Tigers, and only tigers, hunt adult bears

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d8xX7 TIL Russia firstly offered Alaska to Liechtenstein before they offered it to the US
78o7P TIL the first push button phone was the Western Electric 1500 introduced in 1963. It lacked the "*" and "#" buttons.
Rj74 TIL that a steamboat that sank in 1856 was excavated in 1988 under 45 feet of dirt in a field on a farm. Many artifacts were recovered and preserved so well that some of the food was still edible.
XEoPE TIL: One of the things that initiated the downfall of Harvard educated money launderer Franklin Jurado was his neighbor in Luxembourg filing a noise complaint against him, because Jurado had a money-counting machine running all night
Ooama TIL the third season DVDs of "The Adventures of Pete and Pete" were made but mysteriously never distributed. The creators think they're in a warehouse: "It's recorded, we did commentary tracks with a bunch of the cast, there's all these special extras on it. They pressed them, we saw it. Nothing."