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TIL the first confirmed fatal wolf attack in North America was in 2010.

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OGnVR TIL that the Indian Army convened a press conference in 2019 to say that it had discovered footprints in the Himalayas that belonged to the YETI (Big Foot) and eventually mocked after it was found out that the DNA collected matched the local Black Bears
xXK7 TIL on December 1, 1948, a dead man bearing no identification was found on an Australian beach. Well dressed in clothes with deliberately torn-out labels, in excellent physical condition, and having left behind a rare book containing a bizarre code, the man remains unidentified to this day.
EjOP TIL Henry Kissinger Convinced Blackout-Drunk Nixon To Not Nuke North Korea
pjjO TIL There is a $1000 Canadian Bill (discontinued after 2000) and in 2012 there was still 946,043 unaccounted for.
LQAkV TIL that the inventor of the motorcycle died while riding his own motorcycle design at the age of 72. A newspaper headline said that Sylvester Roper "Died in the Saddle".