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TIL there are more tigers in Texas than in their native land of India

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Ooey4 TIL: During WWI British actually proposed to trade with GERMANY for optical devices, and Germany agreed to give them binoculars for British rubber.
WkWYB TIL about Cryptophasia, or 'twin speak'. Up to 50% of twins will create their own language, which only they can understand, including made-up words and a rudimentary grammar system.
R4ja TIL In 1972 Lyle Snider, a Quaker who didn’t want his tax dollars going to fund war, was arrested for claiming 3 billion dependents, the population of the Earth, on his W-4 form. Snider was charged with filing a false and fraudulent withholding form, and sentenced to 9 months in prison.
8eveZ TIL about a hormonal phase musth, in bull elephants where they become very aggressive due to 60 times their normal levels of testosterone
1a6LX TIL Einstein theorised a machine to communicate with the future, the Tachyonic antitelephone.