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TIL there's such a thing as a raccoon dog

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yn9J TIL Jediism Is An Actual Religion that has accumulated thousands of supporters in recent years (about 5,000 in the United States alone) promoting the idea that all living things are connected and bound together by an omnipresent force.
6ARQ TIL Takeru Kobayashi, 6-time Nathans Hot Dog Eating competition winner, lost in a hotdog eating competition against a 1089lb Kodiak bear; he ate 31 hot dogs in 2min36 seconds against the bear’s 50. In 2012 Kobayashi broke the record held by the bear at the Texas state fair with 60 in 2min 35sec.
KjR9 TIL that nearly every sidewalk in Japan is fitted with tactile paving (the bumpy yellow stuff at the edge of subway platforms) to guide blind people
ne7No TIL Evan Chandler, who accused Michael Jackson of molesting his son, was known to provide unnecessary dental surgery in order to provide morphine and other drugs to celebrities like Carrie Fisher
6EvNm TIL over 1000 toads exploded in Hamburg as a result of crows pecking out their livers: terrified toads puffed up to scare away their attackers but with a hole in their bellies & no liver, they swelled up to ~4x their normal size, their lungs burst and the rest of the organs shot straight out of them