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TIL the habitat of the American alligator goes as far north as the North Carolina/Virginia border.

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Rne1 TIL Canadians rescue deer trapped on frozen lakes, by blowing them to the shore with helicopter downdraft.
j90n TIL In the town of Laguna, Brazil a pod of Bottlenose Dolphin cooperatively fish with fishermen. The dolphin herd mullet toward the shore and signal the fishermen to cast their nets. They do this everyday! Town records say that the dolphins and fishermen have been cooperating since 1847.
4jyb TIL that a cook refused to believe she was a carrier for Typhoid Fever, and continued to cook possibly killing 51 people. She was forcibly quarantined for over 30 years until she died.
NXZ8P TIL Alexina Morrison, a fugitive from slavery in Louisiana claimed to be a kidnapped white girl and sued her master for her freedom on that ground, arousing such popular feeling against him that a mob threatened to lynch him
YKgA TIL That the cast of ‘Friends’ made $1 million each per episode in season 9 & 10 = $42 million. Plus $20 million each, every year in royalties since the show ended in 2004.