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TIL that New York City's Queens Zoo once received a lion cub despite having no lion enclosure. The cub, named Genghis Khan, was later moved to California.

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0Gn5 TIL that Jet Li was presumed dead during the Indian Ocean Tsunami disaster.
W7688 TIL Having a Lot of Money Affects Your Personality
jn4n TIL lab researchers have been able to manipulate specific memories using beams of laser light, creating, deleting, and altering emotional content: positive memories have been rendered negative and vice-versa.
aw0NM TIL Iran isn't the name of a government entity. It's simply how the Persian people say the name of their country in Farsi (Iran's Official language) "Iran" is Farsi for "Persia" (Greek form) and they simply wanted people to stop using the Greek form.
nkDb TIL South Carolina passed a “truth in barbeque” law which says that restaurants have to tell customers if they cook with wood or gas. Violators face a fine or jail.