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TIL that in 2013 a zoo in China tried to pass off a hairy dog as a lion

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Y7ZAx TIL of the Wendat chief Kondiaronk, who's efforts concluded in what is known as The Great Peace of Montreal (1701) between France, the Iroquois, and the other Indian tribes of the Upper Great Lakes. This ended the Beaver Wars and helped open up the interior of North America to deeper French explorat
a8WLM TIL Over 7000 Kriegslokomotiven (War Locomotives) were built by Germany during WW2. Today, 5 of them are the last of Europe's industrial steam trains.
E1dL7 TIL there is a group of native peoples in Japan called the Ainu. Their culture is unique from the Japanese, and included things like mouth tattoos and raising bear cubs for sacrifice.
kOyMg TIL of the “smoosh method”, a way of introducing two chinchillas to each other by placing them both in a small cage they can’t move in so they don’t attack each other
nWoyY TIL the microstate of Andorra gets visited by an amount of tourists equal to its population every three days on average.