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TIL that teddy bears exist because "Teddy" Roosevelt refused to kill a real bear

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78bQr TIL one breeding pair of rabbits and their offspring can create nearly 4 million rabbits in only 4 years.
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J1Okj TIL one of Richard Nixon's favorite snacks was cottage cheese sprinkled with Lawry's Seasoned Salt.
e0RjD TIL that in the months after the 2011 quake in northeastern Japan, taxi drivers reported picking up "ghost passengers" in the coastal town of Ishinomaki where nearly 6,000 people died in the tsunami.
arlL TIL that five days before the bombing of Hiroshima, the U.S. Army Air Force dropped one million leaflets over the city and 33 other Japanese cities warning that those cities were going to be destroyed