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TIL that the raccoon life expectancy in the wild is only 1.8 to 3.1 years, depending on the local conditions such as traffic volume, hunting, and weather severity. Captive raccoons have been known to live for more than 20 years.

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PYGBO TIL that for 15 years, Sweden thought enemy submarines were invading their waters, but it turned out to be farting herrings. Shoals were huge enough for the collective flatulence to register on military radar, producing sounds and small bubbles which were mistakenly identified as Russian subs.
VMPyB TIL: on tour in 1974 Frank Sinatra referred to Australian female journalists as buck & a half hookers, the resulting public outrage saw the unions black ban him. The tour resumed after future Prime Minister Bob Hawke brokered a deal over a bottle of brandy & Sinatra issued a "statement of regret"
Ln4Z TIL in WWII, the Germans issued Pervitin, an early form of crystal meth to their soldiers to keep them alert.
AD5xn TIL about Jim Corbett, a British hunter, tracker, and naturalist who hunted and killed a number of man eating tigers and leopards. One tiger he had killed, the Champawat tiger, had killed an estimated 436 people (the highest number of people killed by a tiger.)
rdWM TIL that the Krubera Cave in Georgia is the deepest cave on earth, descending over 2 kilometres into the depths of the Earth’s crust.