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TIL that pandas are more carnivorous protein intake wise than most bears excluding polarbears

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Z8BGG TIL Only 1 pair of boxing gloves from the Roman Empire period have ever been found despite having numerous artistic representations of the objects. They were found in 2018 in Vindoland, north of England close to the Hadrian Wall.
8xZ4 TIL that in 1956, for a bet, while drunk, Thomas Fitzpatrick stole a small plane from New Jersey and then landed it perfectly on a narrow Manhattan street in front of the bar he had been drinking at. Then, two years later, he did it again after a man didn’t believe he had done it the first time.
ADKko TIL that the game WoW had virtual pandemic-like accident in which scientists actually tried to research people's reaction into epidemics.
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