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TIL there are more tigers held captive in Texas than there are in the wild, in all of the world.

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PYagG TIL of the Harvard Jail House, which was put on sale by accident. Robert Pinckney bought the jailhouse for $1.50 and successfully sued the town for rent when they continued putting criminals in there. He then sold the place to Charlie McCarthy, a ventriloquist’s dummy, for $10,000 in war bonds.
QN4pe TIL that "V" is the only letter in English that is never silent,
5YoLD TIL the proper term for removing personal protective equipment is “doffing”
R71j7 TIL that the Discordian calendar has five 73-day seasons: Chaos, Discord, Confusion, Bureaucracy, and The Aftermath; and 73 five-day weeks, with the days Sweetmorn, Boomtime, Pungenday, Prickle-Prickle, and Setting Orange. One of the holidays is Multiversal Underwear Day (August 10/Bureaucracy 3)
Eg9pP TIL about Arthur Whitfield, an English physician and pioneer of dermatology. Whitfield discovered that athlete's foot (tinea pedis) was caused by a fungus infection, and created a treatment for it called "Whitfield's ointment."