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TIL that Spanish and Hispanic American cultures don’t have a Tooth Fairy. They have El Ratoncito Pérez (Perez the Little Mouse) or Ratón Pérez (Perez Mouse)

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woAZJ TIL: Scientists in Florida are being paid to sneak up on iguanas and kill them at night . They use a range of tools from specialized bolt guns to solid objects to their own research equipment as they claim it is the most "humane" method to deal with invasive predators.
WkXM4 TIL Thomas Jefferson spoke English, French, Latin, could read Greek and Spanish, studied and wrote on Old English, and studied other languages including German, Arabic, Irish, and Welsh.
rR0lW TIL that the NFL sent a cease and desist order to an Indiana Church in 2007 for charging admission to a Super Bowl party that was showing the game on a TV larger than 55 inches thus infringing on the NFL’s copyright laws.
grnB9 TIL AI can replace AI engineer jobs too
LkMxv TIL the average dog can count to 5 and understands about 165 words, including signs, signals and gestures. The smartest dogs understand up to 250 words, putting them on par intellectually with 2-and-a-half-year-old humans.