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TIL 90% of the garlic produced in the United States comes from the town of Gilroy in California

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4k1Gw TIL that although the ancestor of all big cats split into the family of Felidae nearly 7 Mya, the skulls of lions and tigers are so similar they are difficult to be told apart by the untrained eye except by specific characteristics like skull sutures placement, nasal bone size, and canine size.
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