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TIL Thomas Jefferson was skeptical about extinction, and thought mastodons were probably lurking in the deep West.

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JNx4 TIL in 2010 a Xbox Live user was banned because he declared Fort Gay as his Hometown. Microsoft apologised later, because the place is real.
N7Rpe TIL In 2011 two fishermen from Kiribati went adrift for 33 days before landing in the Marshall Islands. They then found out that their hitherto thought to be dead uncle, who went missing 25 years earlier after also going adrift, had landed in the Marshall Islands as well and married there.
vMQ7 TIL: The Golden Buddha statue was completely plastered over before 1767 to prevent it from being stolen, the hidden golden statue was only re-discovered in 1950 when the ropes broke while trying to move the statue causing the plaster to break when it hit the ground.
wLPBo TIL carrots are not standard rabbit food. We think they are because Bugs Bunny ate carrots, but that's because his creator loved the film "It Happened One Night", where Clark Gable eats carrots while talking quickly. Also Gable gets called "Doc" throughout the film.
R7E94 TIL that the crime that led Sisyphus to push a boulder was cheating death. He made his wife not bury him properly before he died, chained death, and tricked Persephone into letting him briefly return to earth to scold his wife and ran away instead of returning to hell.