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TIL the California grizzly bear is extinct

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lrd5 TIL that Mark Davis, owner of the Oakland Raiders NFL team, is worth $500 million but drives a 1997 minivan and carries a 2003 dumbphone. Until recently he ate at Hooters every Tuesday night for $12.99 all-you-can-eat wings. Davis travels to southern California to get his unusual bowl haircut.
ZYOG TIL In 1518, a “dancing plague” struck Strasbourg, Alsace, whereby hundreds of people danced fervently in the streets over the period of a month. Some suffered heart attacks or strokes, and many others died from sheer exhaustion. It remains unexplained.
eLdL TIL that very famous Hawaiian song/tune “Aloha ‘Oe” was written by the last Queen of Hawai'i, LiliÊ»uokalani, who transcribed it while imprisoned after a coup that ultimately lead to Hawaii’s annexation into the U.S.
wLxA6 TIL: World population will most likely peak in the next 80 years. We should stop growing at around 11 billion people total world population.
jNDpE TIL in 1931, Coca-Cola solidified the image of Santa Claus as a fat old white man. Prior, he was thought to be a little creepy elf/gnome-like man.