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

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e0Ex4 TIL the reason why there is a Air Jordan shoe called 'Shattered Backboard' is because MJ did that in a game in Italy.
WkvRL TIL: Giant crabs exist! They are called coconut crabs. True to name they can crack a coconut and eat it, but they also kill and eat birds and other small animals.
40Qw TIL we say “pardon my French” after swearing because in the 19th century, English-speaking people would drop French phrases into conversation to display class, apologizing because many of their listeners wouldn’t know the language. Then people hid swear words under the pretense of them being French.
X04oX TIL that "Dhoodh Peeti" was a type of female infanticide prevalent in few northwestern parts of India in which newborn girls were drowned in pails or pits of cow milk. The phrase is a euphemism which literally means "Feeding of milk"
0dejN TIL In June 2022 Belgium returned the gold-capped tooth of Patrice Lumumba. Lumumba had been executed in 1961 and the tooth was all that remained after the first Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo was dissolved in acid and his bones ground to dust.