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TIL Sweden's moose population is so big that they are considered to be a pest animal among many, with even some periods having hunters shoot the equivalent of the total moose population of Alaska annually just to keep the population in check.

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ak7Z TIL that pioneer of astrogeology and founder of planetary science, Eugene Shoemaker, was a candidate for an Apollo moon mission but ruled out due to illness. After his death in 1997, he became the first person laid to rest on another celestial body, and the only human buried on the moon.
eA75 TIL Robert Taylor, inventor of soap-in-a-pump-bottle (Softsoap), knew larger competitors like Colgate would try to copy his product. In order to ensure they couldn’t copy him, he bought every small bottle hand-pump (100 million bottles) in the US. This resulted in a year of the market to himself
kJj0g TIL that after the initial pitch for The Walking Dead was rejected for being too "normal", Robert Kirkman revised the pitch so that the zombie virus was caused by aliens to weaken humanity before an invasion. Kirkman had no intention of ever writing this into the comic, but this pitch was approved.
lovNr TIL in 1960 David Latimer planted a glass bottle (terrarium) with seed and he last watered it in 1972. It was sealed then and is still sustaining itself.
nZe7 TIL that, after years of denials, the CIA admitted to gathering records on activist Noam Chomsky during the Vietnam War. It also destroyed those records, in apparent violation of federal law.