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TIL Panda preservation facilities employ "panda cuddlers" for hugging and playing with them for hours. Pays upwards of $32k

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0Kg1 TIL that when general Lee surrendered at the end of the Civil War he saw that Grant’s military secretary, Ely Parker, was a Seneca Indian and said: “ I am glad to see one real American here.” To which Parker responded : “We are all Americans”.
6mmw TIL that the Oxford English Dictionary lists words with the suffix ’-ize’ (e.g., realize, organize) over the more popular British English ’-ise’, stating it to be both phonetic and closer to its Greek origin
69yDY TIL Over 2 billion people are estimated to eat insects on a daily basis. Today, insect eating is uncommon in North America and Europe, but insects remain a popular food elsewhere, and some companies are trying to introduce insects as food into Western diets.
90VQ TIL the first autopsy performed in the New World was for religious reasons. A pair of infant conjoined twins died shortly after birth, and the Catholic Church wanted to determine if they had one soul or two. The doctor, after finding two complete sets of internal organs, declared they had two.
b6OA9 TIL that India has the world's largest population of wild tigers, with an estimated 70% of the global tiger population residing in the country. The Bengal tiger, which is found primarily in India, is not only the national animal of India but also the largest tiger subspecies.