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TIL the famously isolated Sentinelese hunter-gatherer tribe appear not to know how to set fire. They rely on natural fire from thunderstorms and keep the embers burning as long as they can.
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TIL the Moon "wobbles" during its orbit, showing us a little more than half of the moon's surface from Earth. Since its orbit is not perfectly circular, the Moon changes its speed in orbit, and so the ratio between the rate of its Earth orbit compared to its rotation on its own axis varies.
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TIL the extinct California grizzly bear was, during its existence, the largest bear in the world - bigger than both the polar and Kodiak bears. The heaviest on record weighed 2350 lbs and was shot in the Santa Clarita Valley in 1876.
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TIL: To stop people stealing American road signs with the number 69 on them, Washington state has replaced many of them with signs that read 68.9
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TIL Lyndon B. Johnson was less than 10 years older than John F. Kennedy...