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TIL Canada has the largest zoo in the world covering 710 acres

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GY9wj TIL of Betsy Aardsma, a graduate student who was stabbed at the Penn State University library. Because the wound was so small and the fact that she was wearing a red dress, no one noticed that she was stabbed until after she died, and EMTs thought she was suffering a seizure. The case is unsolved.
WkBDL TIL that the American accent is actually closer to the English accent of Shakespeare than current British English
xoB1 TIL that four people have been estranged from the Phelps family (the one that heads the westboro baptist church). One of them, Nathan Phelps, considers himself an atheist and considers the WBC an organization for his father to “vent his rage and anger.” He now works to promote science and reason.
1oO4 TIL that right before the Cuba embargo took effect, President Kennedy had his secretary buy 1,2000 Cuban cigars
N7QON TIL In 1965, a Ukrainian farmer dug up the lower jawbone of a mammoth. Further excavations revealed the presence of 4 huts, made up of a total of 149 mammoth bones. These dwellings, dating back some 15,000 years, were determined to have been some of the oldest shelters ever built