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TIL dog fox hybrids have been genetically verified. They're known as dogxims.

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YMEr TIL That the series finale of MAS*H in 1983 was watched by 125 million people. The U.S. population that year was approx. 203 million people.
7rL67 TIL that Passenger pigeons, now extinct, once migrated across North America in flocks of up to several billion birds. In 1866, one flock in southern Ontario was described as being 1.5 km wide and 500 km long, took 14 hours to pass, and held in excess of 3.5 billion birds.