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TIL that California has a higher population than the entirety of Canada.

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aROA TIL German soldiers in American POW camps dramatically burned their German uniforms after being shown films of the atrocities of the Holocaust.
R9Za TIL American black panthers are actually jaguars with a dominant gene that causes the black pigment (opposite of albino). And that close examination of their coats will show that the typical markings of a jaguar are still present, but are hidden by the excess black pigment.
7rO97 TIL Dmitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemist and teacher, devised the periodic table. In 1867, one day after working for three straight days, he got the inspiration from a dream: "Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper.” He named his discovery the “periodic table of the elements.”
PYZME TIL: There was an estimated 2.5 million people living in the original thirteen colonies in 1776
yYJ TIL during WW2 US military drove (then)millions of dollars worth of excess vehicles and equipment off the shore of Vanuatu, to make more room for returning troops