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TIL there are more tigers privately owned by US citizens than in the wild worldwide

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awDYN TIL Movie trailers were originally shown after the movie, which why they are called “trailers”
vPljx TIL that the FBI and CIA recruit heavily from the Mormon population because they are usually cheaper to do a security clearance on, they often speak another language from their mission trips, and they usually have a low-risk lifestyle.
GY6Dg TIL That hard drive memory's are smaller because they read a different type of computer language
9wOmM TIL that there are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way. In fact, there are around 422 trees per person on earth.